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The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe
Interaction and mobility have attracted much interest in research within scholarly fields as different as archaeology, history, and more broadly the humanities. Critically assessing some of the most widespread views on interaction and its social impact, this book proposes an innovative perspective which combines radical social theory and currently burgeoning network methodologies. Through an in-depth analysis of a wealth of data often difficult to access, and illustrated by many diagrams and maps, the book highlights connections and their social implications at different scales ranging from the individual settlement to the Mediterranean. The resulting diachronic narrative explores social and...
The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean
The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early Greek religious practices and mythology. The period also witnessed a violent conflict in Asia Minor between warring peoples in the region, a conflict commonly believed to be the historical basis for Homer's Trojan War. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a detailed survey of these fascinating aspects of the period, and many others, in sixty-six newly commissioned articles. Divided into four sections...
The Late Geometric and Early Archaic North-Eastern Aegean
The book focuses on the archaeology of the Late Geometric and Early Archaic North-Eastern Aegean through the emergence, manufacture, distribution and consumption of a regional pottery group known as G 2-3 Ware. It offers the first comprehensive, in-depth study through combination of scientific (fabric analysis) and traditional (morphological, stylistic, comparative and distribution analysis) methods. The large body of studied material allows for drawing conclusions on a broader geographical and historical scale, in contrast to earlier studies focused on individual sites. The manufacture, distribution and consumption patterns are characterised by diversity, which reflects a dynamic, multiethn...
Archaeology of the Ionian Sea
Presents a thematic collection of papers dealing with the Stone Age and Bronze Age archaeology of the Ionian Sea, situated off the south western Balkan peninsula. It is based on an international conference held in Athens, Greece in January 2020. The eastern Ionian occupies a geographically complex area, which since the Pleistocene has undergone significant alterations due to tectonic activity and sea-level fluctuations. This dynamic environment, where islands, mainland, and sea intertwined to present different landscapes and seascapes to the human communities exploring the region at different times in the past, provides an ideal setting for their study from a diachronic perspective. This boo...
Muslims in Medieval Italy
Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the history of a Muslim colony in the southern Italian city of Lucera during the Middle Ages. Author Julie Taylor draws on a vast array of primary sources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological data to provide a detailed account of the lives of Muslims against the backdrop of the social and political complexities of medieval Lucera. Taylor's work illuminates the legal and social status of Muslims in Christendom and the contributions made by Muslims to the economy and defense of the kingdom of Sicily, and it also yields noteworthy insights into Muslim-Christian relations. Muslims in Medieval Italy is a thoroughly researched and absorbing account.
Alloglо̄ssoi
The studies presented in this volume deal with numerous and often undervalued aspects of multilingualism in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean. Primarily, but not exclusively, they explore the impact of the great transnational languages, Greek and Latin, on numerous indigenous languages: the latter mostly disappeared apart from a number of written texts, often not well comprehensible, but at the same time provided the dominant languages with loanwords, some of them destined to enduring success. Moreover, Greek and Latin were remarkably affected by their mutual contact, with the complication that Greek was notoriously far from monolithic, and in some areas its different dialects intermingle...
Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity
In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquty (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Historical Review.
L'Archeologia dell'Adriatico dalla Preistoria al Medioevo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Ravenna, 7-8-9 giugno 2001)
Il volume raccoglie gli atti del convegno internazionale 'L'Archeologia dell'Adriatico dalla Preistoria al Medioevo' (Ravenna, 7-8-9 giugno 2001) dedicato ad uno dei grandi 'luoghi' della storia del mondo antico, attorno al cui bacino è fiorito nei secoli uno straordinario intreccio di rapporti storici, sociali, economici, culturali. Attraverso un'ampia panoramica di ricerche, progetti, indagini, iniziative di valorizzazione che hanno per oggetto l'Adriatico e le terre che lo circondano, le molteplici relazioni fra l'uomo e questo mare si declinano in un'infinità di sfumature, guardando di volta in volta all'archeologia delle comunicazioni marittime, alle emergenze storiche sommerse, alle direttrici di transito di uomini ed idee, alle innumerevoli tracce lasciate dagli uomini durante il loro passaggio o il loro insediarsi. Si ricompone così una narrazione più vasta, al cui centro saldamente sta l'Adriatico, con le sue rotte, con i suoi approdi, con l'essere 'spontaneo' mediatore culturale per le civiltà insediate lungo le sue coste o per i popoli dell'interno, sospinti sul litorale dalla ricerca di un affaccio, dal desiderio di contatto con i propri simili.
The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina
This first supplement to Islamic Art takes as its subject the painted ceilings of the 12th-century Palatine Chapel in Palermo, Italy.
