Contextualizing Imperial Disruption and Upheavals and their Associated Research Challenges

Jane E. Francis is a professor of Classical Archaeology at Concordia University in Montreal. She completed her PhD at Bryn Mawr College. Her main research interests focus on the material evidence of the Roman period on Crete, especially pottery and beekeeping. She has studied and published pottery from excavations and surveys on Crete, including Sphakia, Skoteino Cave, and Khavania.63993 Michael J. Curtis is an Honorary Fellow and Doctoral Researcher at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, where his research interests are centred on the development and infrastructure of the Cretan maritime landscape through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, a topic that is reflected in his fieldwork on the island, published articles and presentations. Michael is the Course Director and joint founder of My Ancient World Learning Ltd, a company that specialises in the delivery of Lifelong Learning modules in Archaeology, Ancient History and Classics to global audiences.150829

Preface
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1. Introduction
Jane E. Francis and Michael J. Curtis
2. Sacred Manumissions with paramone Clause found at the Asklepieion of Lissos as a Response to the Disruption of Cretan Slavery Patterns at the Turn of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Adam Paluchowski
3. Sacred Landscapes and Social Mobility in Late-Hellenistic and Early Roman Crete
Francois Chevrollier
4. The Romans and Crete before the Conquest: An Interface of History and Early Roman Ceramics
Jane E. Francis
5. Political Upheavals and the Roman Army: Looking for Traces of the Roman Army on Crete
Pavlina Karanastasi
6. Maritime Re-Organisation and Investment in Crete's Ports and Harbours
Michael J. Curtis
7. Italian Sigillata Stamps found East and South of Mt Dikte (Crete)
Martha Baldwin Bowsky
8. Roman Pottery from Sector 1 of the Urban House in the Health Centre Plot at Kissamos: A First Approach
Emmanuel Papoutsakis
9. Disruption and Innovation in Local Pottery Production in Gortyn in the Late-Roman Period
Marina Albertocchi
10. Economic Upheavals and the Resilience of Roman Crete
Scott Gallimore
11. Investigating Disruptions and Upheavals in Natural and Anthropic Landscape of Roman Gortyn through a Water Lens: Five Research Challenges
Elisabetta Giorgi
12. Roman Tweaks; Greek Template. Towards a Coherent Framework
George W. M. Harrison
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