The archaeology of Byzantium is the archaeology of an empire whose chronological bounds, broadly speaking, spanned the fourth through fifteenth century AD. The authors whose works are collected in this handbook examine methods and practice of Byzantine archaeology as well as the materials typically encountered in artifacts produced within the imperial boundaries. Byzantine archaeology is still a relatively young discipline, and, while vast in its scope and ambition, work in the field tends to be challenging to access. This volume aims to remedy this situation by providing current views of the nature of Byzantine archaeology, exploring crucial studies which elucidate salient features of the empire's people, as well as offering glimpses of how things may develop in the near future.
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This book provides an accessible overview, through 36 expansive chapters, of the major categories of evidence used in the study of Byzantine material culture.
Part I. Byzantine Archaeology: Sources and Methods: Introduction Michael
J. Decker;
1. Byzantine archaeology: a loss of innocence Richard Hodges;
2.
Survey archaeology as a source of data: principles and practice Ufuk Serin;
3. Ceramics and Byzantine archaeology Pamela Armstrong;
4. Papyri and the
study of archaeology in Byzantium Arietta Papaconstantinou;
5. Coins Julian
Baker;
6. Byzantine epigraphy Frederick Lauritzen;
7. Sillography and
Byzantine archaeology Olga Karagiorgou;
8. Metalwork Brigitte Pitarakis;
9.
Skeletal materials Anthousa Papagiannaki;
10. Byzantine glass vessels
Christopher Lightfoot;
11. Sculpture Simon Davies;
12. Textiles Petra
Linschied; Part II. Themes in Byzantine Archaeology:
13. Constantinople
Abrecht Berger;
14. The Balkans Jim Crow;
15. The Byzantine west to the
pillars of Hercules Paul Arthur;
16. Anatolia Philipp Niewöhner;
17. The
Southern Levant in the Byzantine period (324600): old and new debates in the
light of archaeological contributions Itamar Taxel;
18. Crimea and the
western Cacausus: seventh to twelfth centuries Michel Kazanski;
19. Byzantine
ecologies Adam Izdebski;
20. The archaeology of Byzantine daily life Marcus
Rautman;
21. The bioarchaeology of Byzantine death Chryssi Bourbou;
22. Art
and reality: material culture in Byzantium Nadine Schibille;
23. Ethnicity
and identity in Byzantine archaeology Kostis Kourelis;
24. Gender and
Byzantine archaeology Marica Cassis;
25. Coins, context and the Byzantine
economy (seventh to fifteenth centuries) Cécile Morrisson;
26. Revival and
revolution: Byzantine shipwrecks of the greater Mediterranean world Sean A.
Kingsley;
27. Byzantine ports and harbourless seas Sean A. Kingsley;
28.
Architectural approaches to Byzantium Cecily Hennessy;
29. Byzantine rock-cut
architecture J. Eric Cooper;
30. The built environment and the experience of
the fortified cities in Byzantium Nikolas Bakirtzis;
31. Churches and sacred
spaces Vincenzo Ruggieri;
32. The 'Byzantine' countryside in transition ca.
550ca. 850 Luca Zavagno;
33. The middle- and late Byzantine countryside
Michael J. Decker;
34. The coming of Islam Gideon Avni;
35. The end of
Byzantium: the transition in material culture from Byzantine to Ottoman times
Joanita Vroom;
36. The future of Byzantine archaeology Myrto Veikou.
Michael J. Decker is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida. The focus of his research is Byzantium to c. 1100. His publications include Tilling the Hateful Earth (2009) and The Byzantine Dark Ages (2016).
