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Beyond Icons

Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America
Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-35117-9 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s. The eleven authors represent a generational voice that employed theory to redirect the established narratives of the golden age of Byzantine archaeology (1960s–1980s) that privileged art and religion.

Beyond Icons: Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America originated in three conferences (2010, 2012, and 2013) organized by the Program of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. Acknowledging the role that Dumbarton Oaks played in the golden age of Byzantine archaeology, Program Director Margaret Mullett designed these conferences as exercises in conceptualizing the field’s future. The chapters consider theories of fragments, methodologies in regional surface survey, stratigraphy, habitus, phenomenology, gender theory, craft, dreams, and sound. In doing so, they capture a moment in the study of Byzantine archaeology and material culture and chart out future directions for the field.

This book will appeal to scholars and students alike, as well as all those interested in Byzantine Studies, medieval archaeology (particularly of the eastern Mediterranean), and Byzantine material culture. It will also be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the emerging narrative of a global Middle Ages. The chapters reflect the ways in which the study of Byzantine archaeology was shaped by the scholarship of those working in the United States and Canada.

William R. Caraher is an archaeologist and historian who teaches in the Department of History and American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota. He has worked in Greece, Cyprus, and North America and studies the archaeology of Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, and the contemporary world. Kostis Kourelis is an architectural historian who teaches in the Department of Visual Arts at Franklin & Marshall College. His research focuses on the buildings and landscapes of forced migration in the medieval and modern periods. He explores the history of humanitarianism and the relationship between radical art practices and archaeology. His current fieldwork centers on refugee camps in Greece, Japanese incarceration camps in the American West, ethnic neighborhoods in the United States, underground music venues, and deserted villages. Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian studies at Brandeis University in the Departments of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. Brooks Hedstrom is an archaeologist and historian of ancient and medieval Christianity of the eastern Mediterranean world. She examines the history of monastic makers of Late Antique objects and spaces and is the author of The Monastic Landscape in Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction and Desert Ascetics in Egypt (2017). Brooks Hedstrom is the Senior Archaeological Consultant for the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project–North.

Introduction

Assembling the Fragments of Byzantine Archaeology

Kostis Kourelis

Chapter 1

High-Resolution Survey and the New Quest for the Byzantine Landscape: A Case Study from the Corinthia, Greece

David K. Pettegrew and William R. Caraher

Chapter 2

Settlement Patterns, Regional Diversity and a Long-Lived Landscape: Exploring Byzantium through Regional Survey

Fotini Kondyli

Chapter 3

Constructing Relationships from Destruction: Perspectives on Stratigraphic Context in Byzantine Archaeology

Adam Rabinowitz

Chapter 4

Dream Archaeology

William R. Caraher & Kostis Kourelis

Chapter 5

Archaeological Indicators for a Monastic Habitus

Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom

Chapter 6

Space and Place: Experiencing Sinai's Monastic Landscape

Ann Marie Yasin

Chapter 7

An Archaeology of Sound and Space in the Byzantine World

Amy Papalexandrou

Chapter 8

Public Space, Private Space: Gender Theory and Feminism in Byzantine Archaeology

Marica Cassis

Chapter 9

Millstones and Household Economy in the Byzantine Dark Age: A Case Study from Isthmia, Greece

Nick Kardulias

Chapter 10

Reflections on Context: Byzantine Archaeology in North America and the Golden Age of Dumbarton Oaks

Margaret Mullett

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 53 Halftones, black and white; 53 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 690 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-032-35117-9 / 1032351179
ISBN-13 978-1-032-35117-9 / 9781032351179
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