Ovens, Olives, and the Church in Late Antique Cyprus
Author: Stephen Dan Humphreys
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13:
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More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus
Author: Catherine T. Keane
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-06-20
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9004697888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe church annexes of late antique Cyprus were bustling places of industry, producing olive oil, flour, bread, ceramics, and metal products. From its earliest centuries, the church was an economic player, participating in agricultural and artisanal production. More than a Church brings together architecture, ceramics, numismatics, landscape archaeology, and unpublished excavation material, alongside consideration of Cyprus’s dynamic and prosperous 4th–10th-century history. Keane offers a rich picture of the association between sacred buildings and agricultural and industrial facilities—comprehensively presenting, for the first time, the church’s economic role and impact in late antique Cyprus.
Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity
Author: Panayiotis Panayides
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2023-01-24
Total Pages: 589
ISBN-13: 1789258758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCyprus was a thriving and densely populated late antique province. Contrary to what used to be thought, the Arab raids of the mid-seventh century did not abruptly bring the island’s prosperity to an end. Recent research instead highlights long-lasting continuity in both urban and rural contexts. This volume brings together historians and archaeologists working on diverse aspects of Cyprus between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss topics as varied as rural prosperity, urban endurance, artisanal production, civic and private religion and maritime connectivity. The role of the imperial administration and of the Church is touched upon in several contributions. Other articles place Cyprus back into its wider Mediterranean context. Together, they produce a comprehensive impression of the quality of life on the island in the long late antiquity.
Multidisciplinary approaches to food and foodways in the medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Author: Sylvie Yona Waksman
Publisher:
Published: 2020
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ISBN-13: 9782356680709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman Villa in the Mediterranean Basin
Author: Annalisa Marzano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 1316730611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a comprehensive survey of Roman villas in Italy and the Mediterranean provinces of the Roman Empire, from their origins to the collapse of the Empire. The architecture of villas could be humble or grand, and sometimes luxurious. Villas were most often farms where wine, olive oil, cereals, and manufactured goods, among other products, were produced. They were also venues for hospitality, conversation, and thinking on pagan, and ultimately Christian, themes. Villas spread as the Empire grew. Like towns and cities, they became the means of power and assimilation, just as infrastructure, such as aqueducts and bridges, was transforming the Mediterranean into a Roman sea. The distinctive Roman/Italian villa type was transferred to the provinces, resulting in Mediterranean-wide culture of rural dwelling and work that further unified the Empire.
Public Space in the Late Antique City
Author: Luke Lavan
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004413726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the nature of 'public space' in Mediterranean cities, A.D. 284-650, meaning places where it was impossible to avoid meeting people from all parts of society, whether different religious confessions or social groups. 0The first volume considers the architectural form and everyday functions of streets, fora / agorai, market buildings, and shops, including a study of processions and everyday street life. 0The second volume analyses archaeological evidence for the construction, repair, use, and abandonment of these urban spaces, based on standardised principles of phasing and dating. The conclusions provide insights into the urban environment of Constantinople, an assessment of urban institutions and citizenship, and a consideration of the impact of Christianity on civic life at this time.
A Description of the Historic Monuments of Cyprus
Author: George Jeffery
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 528
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
Author: Alison I. Beach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108770630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
Author: Roger S. Bagnall
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780754659068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second collection by Roger Bagnall brings together a further two dozen of his studies, this time covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt, published over the last thirty years. Many of the articles deal with issues of historical and papyrological method: the restoration of papyrus texts, the direction of archaeological work in Egypt, economic models for Roman Egypt, the usefulness of postcolonial theory, and approaches to the defective literary tradition for the Library of Alexandria. Others concentrate on particular bodies of evidence, ranging from inscriptions to ascetic literature, from registers to women's letters.
Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic
Author: Magdalena Skoblar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1108840701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.
