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Papers on the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity. Offers a view of the main Mediterranean islands from West to East in Late Antiquity, since Mediterranean islands can contribute in fundamental ways to our understanding not only of earlier colonisations but also later periods. The volume explores specifically the time frame from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Medieval period. Different groups of papers cover islands and island groups in the Central and Western Mediterranean, the Eastern Mediterranean, and changing perceptions of island landscapes in Late Antiquity. AUTHORS: Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros is ICREA Research Professor and director of the Archaeological and Archaeometrical Research Group of the University of Barcelona (ERAAUB), Spain. He is an archaeologist focused on the Late Antique Mediterranean and on archaeometry of ceramics. He is co-director of the excavations of the Roman city of Pollentia and the early Christian site of Son Peretó in the Balearics. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Cagliari, Sassari (Italy) and Brown (USA). Catalina Mas Florit is an archaeologist focusing on Late Antiquity, especially in the western Mediterranean with a particular interest in island systems and rural areas. She has directed the excavations of the Roman villa of Sa Mesquida (Mallorca, Spain), and the Early Christian complex of Illa del Rei (Menora, Spain). 65 b/w images

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Author:   Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros ,  Catalina Mas Florit
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9781789251807

ISBN 10:   178925180
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   25 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Contributor Addresses Foreword: Islands, Change and Late Antiquity Catalina Mas Florit and Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros 1. The Occupation of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) in Late Antiquity: Tracing Change and Resilience Catalina Mas Florit and Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros 2. Between Change and Resilience: Urban and Rural Settlement Patterns in Late Antique Corsica Gabriele Castiglia and Philippe Pergola 3. Procopius’ Barbarikinoi and Gregory the Great’s Barbaricini: Mauri and Sardinians in the sixth and seventh Centuries A.D. Pier Giorgio Spanu 4. Sicily from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: Resilience and Disruption Alessandra Molinari 5. The Transformation of Adriatic Islands from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages Miljenko Jurković 6. Macro-economy, Micro-ecology, and the Fate of Urbanized Landscape in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Crete Enrico Zanini 7. Crete, a Border at the Sea: Defensive Works and Landscape – Mindscape Changes (Seventh–Eighth Centuries A.D.) Christina Tsigonaki 8. Islands and Resilience: Christianization Processes in the Cyclades Rebecca J. Sweetman 9. The Christianization of Island Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: New Perspectives from Naxos in the Aegean Sam Turner and Jim Crow 10. The Islands of the Southern Aegean from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: The Archaeological Evidence Natalia Poulou 11. Economic Landscapes and Transformed Mindscapes in Cyprus from Roman Times to the Early Middle Ages Athanasios Vionis and Giorgos Papantoniou 12. Islands in Context, A.D. 400–1000 David Abulafia Index

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Together the contributors make a persuasive case that far from being insular backwaters, islands in Late Antiquitywere diverse, dynamic and embedded in networks of connectivity. --Antiquity

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Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros is ICREA Research Professor and director of the Archaeological and Archaeometrical Research Group of the University of Barcelona (ERAAUB), Spain. He is an archaeologist focused on the Late Antique Mediterranean and on archaeometry of ceramics. He is co-director of the excavations of the Roman city of Pollentia and the early Christian site of Son Peretó in the Balearics. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Cagliari, Sassari (Italy) and Brown (USA). Catalina Mas Florit is an archaeologist focusing on Late Antiquity, especially in the western Mediterranean with a particular interest in island systems and rural areas. She has directed the excavations of the Roman villa of Sa Mesquida (Mallorca, Spain), and the Early Christian complex of Illa del Rei (Menora, Spain).

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