Archaeology of the Mediterranean During Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Varied approaches to an overlooked time

period in the history and archaeology of the Mediterranean



This

book presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, and

Sicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time in

the history of the central Mediterranean. The research approaches and areas of

specialization collected here range from material culture to landscape

settlement patterns, from epigraphy to architecture and architectural

decoration, and from funerary archaeology to urban fabric and cityscapes.



Topics

covered in these chapters include late Roman villas; the formation of Byzantine

and Islamic settlements in western Sicily; reuse of protohistoric sites in

late antiquity and the middle ages in eastern Sicily; early Christian

landscapes and settlements in Corsica; the transition from late antiquity

through Byzantine rule to Muslim conquest in Malta; trade network trajectories

of the Aegean islands and Crete; and crosscultural interactions in medieval

Greece. Together, these essays show the potential of post-Ancient and

post-Classical archaeology, highlighting missing links between the Roman world

and medieval Byzantium and broadening the horizons of new generations of

archaeologists.



Contributors: Carla Aleo Nero Effie F. Athanassopoulos Giuseppe Bazan Amelia

R. Brown Gabriele Castiglia Angelo Castrorao Barba David Cardona Santino

Alessandro Cugno Michael J. Decker Franco Dell'Aquila Scott Gallimore Matt

King Rosa Lanteri Pasquale Marino Roberto Miccich? Philippe Pergola Filippo

Pisciotta Natalia Poulou Grant Schrama Claudia Speciale Davide Tanasi