Byzantine Epirus

Veikou, Myrto

doi:10.1163/9789004227460

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“…Because of pottery we can debate the organization of production, the distance goods were moved, and how much came from where in any period. 15 Moreover, as…”

Section: Act I: General Problems Of Methodsmentioning

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“…Confirmation bias is a phenomenon wherein researchers assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis and ignore or undervalue evidence that could disprove their hypothesis. 15 Scholars can never fully alienate themselves from the socio-political and socioeconomic concerns in which their work is embedded. 16 In this sense, one can only wonder if the postcolonial period and the creation of an independent Cyprus in the 1960s might have lead some scholars to read into the so-called Dark Ages a metanarrative more in tune with the new political and ecclesiastical status quo.…”

Section: A Brief Overview Of Cypriot Historiographymentioning

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“…It suffices here to say that in mid-sixth-century Gallia, Cypriot wines were imported together with those from other areas of the eastern Mediterranean basin, like Crete, Samos, and Gaza. 15 The role of Cyprus as a stepping stone in the eastern Mediterranean cultural and economic communication chain had been enhanced since its annexation to the Roman Empire in 58 BCE. 16 After the battle of Actium, Augustus ceded the island to the Senate and Cyprus was, as Terence Mitford has put it, ushered into more than three centuries of serene anonymity benefiting from the privileges of the Pax Romana.…”

Section: A History Of Cyprus In the Early Middle Agesmentioning

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“…Moreover, as Gregory stresses, survey strategies have shown a preference for low lying areas: "Thus when we find that Byzantine and medieval pottery tends to concentrate in coastal plains [or valleys] we should remember that these areas have been surveyed more intensively". 15 To this problem one may also add the aforementioned inability to recognize eighth-and ninth-century pottery and the possible existence of settlement patterns other than those determined by safety and defence needs. Indeed, successful results have recently come from a (re-)examination of specific types and ranges of pottery, 16 andagain as Gregory had hopedwe have also grown more aware that these hide many differences because they encompass a period of centuries, during which there must have been significant changes in settlement and use patterns.…”

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“…I am also perfectly aware that archaeology, too, has sometimes lacked a methodological critique. 15 For instance, Tassos Papacostas stresses that archaeological surveys seldom pay attention to periods later than the Roman Empire and, therefore, rarely edge beyond the historiographical gap represented by the seventh century. Other surveys remained unpublished, as geographical bias does not allow us to use more than a small amount of literature on sites located in the northern part of the island.…”

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Cyprus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600–800)

Zavagno¹

2017

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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 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.Analysis of new archaeological evidence shows signs of a continuing link to Constantinople. Moreover, together with a reassessment of the literary evidence, archaeology and material culture help us to reappraise the impact of Arab naval raids and contextualize the confrontational episodes throughout the ebb and flow of Eastern Mediterranean history: the political influence of the Caliphate looked stronger in the second half of the seventh century, the administrative and ecclesiastical influence of the Byzantine empire held sway from the beginning of the eighth to the twelfth century. Whereas the island retained sound commercial ties with the Umayyad Levant in the seventh and eighth centuries, at the same time politically and economically it remained part of the Byzantine sphere. This belies the idea of Cyprus as an independent province only loosely tied to Constantinople and allows us to draw a different picture of the cultural identities, political practices and hierarchy of wealth and power in Cyprus during the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Luca Zavagno received his BA degree in History from the University Ca'Foscari, Venice; he completed his PhD studies at the University of Birmingham on the society, culture, economics and politics of Byzantine cities. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Bilkent University. Dr. Zavagno is the author of many articles on the Byzantine and early Medieval Mediterranean and of the co-edited volumes Islands of the Eastern Mediterranean: A History of Cross Cultural Encounters (2014), Goods on the Move: Merchants, Networks and Communication Routes in the Medieval and Early Modern Era (2016) and of Cities in Transition: Urbanism in Byzantium between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2009).

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“…Because of pottery we can debate the organization of production, the distance goods were moved, and how much came from where in any period. 15 Moreover, as…”

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