Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside

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This book surveys a variety of themes relating to the late antique countryside. It covers social and economic life, the archaeology of pilgrimage and the fate of rural temples, villas, monasteries and landscape change. There is a special section on rural survey in Turkey, a region of the Roman empire for which our knowledge of the countryside is poor. A bibliographic essay, on the rural archaeology of the entire empire, provides an excellent introduction to the volume and to the subject as a whole. Essays range from Northern Gaul to Egypt and draw on many sources: from papyrology and epigraphy to field survey and paleobotany. A complex picture of differing regional trajectories emerges, whilst cultural change is everywhere apparent, in phenomena such as Christianisation, settlement nucleation and fortification. Contributors include Beat Brenk, Beatrice Caseau, Douglas Baird, Archie Dunn, Etienne Louis, Fabio Saggioro, John Mitchell, Joseph Patrich, Lynda Mulvin, Carla Sfameni, Marcus Rautman, Peter Sarris, Frank Trombley, Joanita Vroom and Marc Waelkens. 10.1163@22134522-90000019 RECENT RESEARCH ON THE LATE ANTIQUE COUNTRYSIDE Copyright CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS THE LATE ANTIQUE COUNTRYSIDE: AN INTRODUCTION William Bowden and Luke Lavan 10.1163@22134522-90000020 PART ONE BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE LATE ANTIQUE COUNTRYSIDE: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY Alexandra Chavarría and Tamara Lewit sarris2004 PART TWO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE REHABILITATING THE GREAT ESTATE: ARISTOCRATIC PROPERTY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE LATE ANTIQUE EAST Peter Sarris trombley2004 EPIGRAPHIC DATA ON VILLAGE CULTURE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS: AN INTERREGIONAL COMPARISON (SYRIA, PHOENICE LIBANENSIS AND ARABIA) Frank R. Trombley caseau2004 PART THREE SACRED LANDSCAPES THE FATE OF RURAL TEMPLES IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE CHRISTIANISATION OF THE COUNTRYSIDE Béatrice Caseau mitchell2004 THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PILGRIMAGE IN LATE ANTIQUE ALBANIA: THE BASILICA OF THE FORTY MARTYRS John Mitchell rautman2004 PART FOUR RECENT RURAL SURVEY IN TURKEY AND ADJACENT REGIONS VALLEY AND VILLAGE IN LATE ROMAN CYPRUS Marcus Rautman baird2004 SETTLEMENT EXPANSION ON THE KONYA PLAIN,ANATOLIA: 5th–7th CENTURIES A.D.Douglas Baird vanhaverbeke2004 LATE ANTIQUITY IN THE TERRITORY OF SAGALASSOS H. Vanhaverbeke, F. Martens, M. Waelkens & J. Poblome vroom2004 LATE ANTIQUE POTTERY, SETTLEMENT AND TRADE IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN: A PRELIMINARY COMPARISON OF CERAMICS FROM LIMYRA (LYCIA) AND BOEOTIA Joanita Vroom sfameni2004 PART FIVE VILLAS IN LATE ANTIQUITY RESIDENTIAL VILLAS IN LATE ANTIQUE ITALY: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE Carla Sfameni mulvin2004 LATE ROMAN VILLA PLANS: THE DANUBE-BALKAN REGION Lynda Mulvin patrich2004 PART SIX RURAL MONASTERIES MONASTIC LANDSCAPES Joseph Patrich brenk2004 MONASTERIES AS RURAL SETTLEMENTS: PATRON-DEPENDENCE OR SELF-SUFFICIENCY? Beat Brenk louis2004 PART SEVEN LANDSCAPE CHANGE FROM GAUL TO THE BALKANS A DE-ROMANISED LANDSCAPE IN NORTHERN GAUL: THE SCARPE VALLEY FROM THE 4TH TO THE 9TH CENTURY A.D. Etienne Louis saggioro2004 LATE ANTIQUE SETTLEMENT ON THE PLAIN OF VERONA Fabio Saggioro dunn2004 CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE MACEDONIAN COUNTRYSIDE FROM GALLIENUS TO JUSTINIAN Archibald Dunn 10.1163@22134522-90000036 INDEX