Byzantine Epirus : : a topography of transformation : settlements of the seventh-twelfth centuries in southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece / / Myrto Veikou.

• Superior document: Medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500, v. 95
• Author: Veikou, Myrto.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 95.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (903 pages)
• Notes: Based on the author's doctoral studies at the universities of Athens and Paris.

Much of the past twenty years of scholarship on late-antique and medieval landscapes and settlement has introduced theoretical patterns reflecting meta-narratives of evolution and transition. This book draws on 5 years of archaeological and topographical fieldwork in order to attempt a rereading of Byzantine texts in accordance with recent perceptions of the historicity of space. The result is a fresh interpretation of settlement in Western Greece (Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania) from 600 to 1200 AD, springing from a postmodern theoretical background. While representing real progress in the treatment of the Middle Byzantine regions, the book makes an ecological contribution to historical and social studies through a new evaluation of the transformation of medieval settlement as a result of interaction between physical/social space and human agency.

Table of Contents

pt.1 . Study of a changing landscape -- pt. 2. Material culture -- pt. 3. Habitation -- pt. 4. The case of middle Byzantine southern Epirus -- pt. 5. Inventory of 7th-12th-century sites in middle Byzantine southern Epirus.