Networks and Church Building in the Aegean: Crete, Cyprus, Lycia and the Peloponnese

Sweetman, Rebecca

doi:10.1017/s0068245417000016

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“…The general principles of SNA (cf. Hanneman and Riddle 2005) are now familiar to many historians of Greek history and prehistory (Malkin, Constantakopoulou and Panagopoulou 2009; Taylor and Vlassopoulos 2015; Sweetman 2017), and the application of SNA via digital techniques has been discussed extensively, principally by Tom Brughmans and others (see Brughmans 2010; 2012; Collar et al 2015; Brughmans, Collar and Coward (2016); Leidwanger and Knappett 2018). In an SNA, people, places or things are represented as abstract nodes, and explicit emphasis is put on the connections – or edges – that exist between them.…”

Section: A Computational-based Methodology For Identifying Routes Andmentioning

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Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Loy

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualised, and discussion focuses on how navigation varied both between centuries and according to the traveller's place of origin. It is suggested that travellers were dependent on other sorts of networks, and that routes travelled were shaped greatly by the economics and politics of the day. It is also proposed that methodologies used in this paper offer great potential for engaging broad-scale sets of archive data.

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Section: A Computational-based Methodology For Identifying Routes Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Loy

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Hiding in Plain Sight: Epigraphic Reuse in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias

Sitz¹

2019

Journal of Late Antiquity

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An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of the Churches in the Southern Mani Peninsula, Greece

Seifried

Kalaycı²

2019

Open Archaeology

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The Mani Peninsula is home to hundreds of Orthodox Christian churches that were built within the last millennium. As in other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean countryside, the topological relationship between churches and settlements is a critical factor in understanding the significance of the sacred landscape. Many churches are situated in the central part of a village or on its very edge, but others – what are referred to as “outlying churches” or exokklisia – are built at great distances away. In this paper, we make the first attempt to assess the spatial relationship between the spaces where people worshipped (the churches) and the spaces where they lived (the settlements) at a regional scale, focused specifically on the Middle Byzantine period and later (mid-9th century CE to the present day). Comparing these patterns across the Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern periods allows us to frame Mani’s sacred infrastructure within a changing, diachronic perspective. The results point to a change in the topological relationship between church and settlement that is best described as the “nucleation of the sacred landscape.”

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Networks and Church Building in the Aegean: Crete, Cyprus, Lycia and the Peloponnese

Cited by 4 publications

References 61 publications

Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Hiding in Plain Sight: Epigraphic Reuse in the Temple-Church at Aphrodisias

An Exploratory Spatial Analysis of the Churches in the Southern Mani Peninsula, Greece

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