In this work the author analyses how the nature and characteristics of urbanism in Byzantium changed between the sixth and the eighth century AD. By use of a multifunctional approach the work offers a methodological path to assess the future contributions of urban Byzantine archaeology and to interpret other possible models of Byzantine urbanism. Contents: 1) The Byzantine city and its historiographical tradition; 2) Athens; 3) Gortyn; 4) Ephesos; 5) Amastris; 6) Conclusions.
In this work the author analyses how the nature and characteristics of urbanism in Byzantium changed between the sixth and the eighth century AD. By u...
Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique -golden age- (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzantine -reconquista- (post-AD 965) while overlooking the intervening period. This phase was characterized, supposedly, by the division of the political sovereignty between the Umayyads and the Byzantines, bringing about the social and demographic dislocation of the population of the island. This book proposes a different story of continuities and slow transformations in the fate of Cyprus between the late sixth and the early ninth centuries.
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Research on early medieval Cyprus has focused on the late antique -golden age- (late fourth/early fifth to seventh century) and the so-called Byzan...
