Archaeology of the Mediterranean During Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages - by Angelo Castrorao Barba & Davide Tanasi & Roberto Miccichè

About the Book

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 and archaeology of the central Mediterranean.

Book Synopsis

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 Miccichè Philippe Pergola Filippo
Pisciotta Natalia Poulou Grant Schrama Claudia Speciale Davide Tanasi

About the Author

Angelo Castrorao Barba, postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, is the author of La fine delle ville romane in Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo (III-VIII secolo). Davide Tanasi, professor of history and director of the Institute for Digital Exploration at the University of South Florida, is coeditor of The Maltese Archipelago at the Dawn of History: Reassessment of the 1909 and 1959 Excavations at Qlejgħa tal-Baħrija and Other Essays. Roberto Miccichè is research fellow in anthropology at the University of Palermo and courtesy visiting adjunct professor of history at the University of South Florida.