Εξειδίκευση τύπου :	Βιβλιοκρισία
Τίτλος:	Fotini Kondyli. Rural Communities in Late Byzantium. Resilience and Vulnerability in the Northern Aegean (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 290 pp., 80 illustr., 66 in colour, 20 maps, hbk, ISBN 978-1-108-84549-6)
Δημιουργός/Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Τσιβίκης, Νικόλαος[EN] Tsivikis, Nikolaos
Εκδότης:	Cambridge University Press
Ημερομηνία:	2024
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
ISSN:	1461-9571 1741-2722
DOI:	10.1017/eaa.2024.38
Περιγραφή:	We have come a long way from the days when Byzantine studies, especially archaeology, focused almost exclusively on the great architectural monuments and works of art of the millennia-old state. Peasant life, agricultural experience, and rural realities have become more visible and the focus of a—still limited, but significant—scholarly discussion. Nevertheless, if we ask the question: what do we really know about the rural communities of late Byzantium, the answer will surely be ‘very little’. The rural communities of one of the longest-lived Late Antique and medieval state formations in the Mediterranean, Byzantium, despite being the economic backbone and hard core of Byzantine society, still struggle to attract much attention. This is not only because of a presumption that these communities are less glamorous or colorful when compared to the city dwellers, especially those of the capital city of Constantinople, and thus do not make good material for our histories, but it is also largely because we still have few and relatively undeveloped tools to approach these communities in a meaningful way. [...]
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	European Journal of Archaeology
Τόμος/Κεφάλαιο:	27
Τεύχος:	4
Σελίδες:	534 - 538
Θεματική Κατηγορία:	[EL] Μεσαιωνική Ελλάδα, Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία 323-1453[EN] Medieval Greece. Byzantine Empire, 323-1453
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά:	Byzantine studies Rural communities Byzantine archaeology Fotini Kondyli
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Association of Archaeologists
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση στον εκδότη (link):	https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.38
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