Recent Developments in the Chronology of Byzantine Corinth

Medieval Britain and Ireland in 2002

“…48 42 Kilger 2008a. 43 Hodges 2006Sanders 2003 The distribution of PAS weights is heavily skewed towards the productive site of Torksey, which has produced 23 of the 31 usable weights; the other eight weights have been found across the Danelaw -from North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and as far south-west as Buckinghamshire.…”

Islands in a Sea of Change? Continuity and Abandonment in Dark Age Corinth and Thessaloniki

“…Extensive areas of the Roman Forum and surrounding buildings noted by Pausanias, small stretches along the edges of the ancient city, and scattered plots inside the city and on Acrocorinth were subsequently excavated. As excavation continued documentation increased, and the scope of interest widened, but much of the dating in older publications is in need of re-evaluation, and the percentage of the Late Antique or Byzantine city excavated up to the present remains small (Sanders 2003(Sanders , 2004.…”

“…31-33). The commercial function of this area in the early seventh and later ninth centuries is assured by these buildings and coin finds, though this was probably no longer the administrative center (Sanders 2003). The paucity of late seventh-to early ninth-century coin finds may indicate a demonetization of the economy rather than abandonment, especially since the area was not built over and resembles the western market spaces of Thessaloniki and Athens (Ashburner 1910;Hendy 1985;Sanders 2003, p. 387).…”

Landscape Archaeology and the Medieval Countryside: Settlement and Abandonment in the Nemea Region

“…Thus, the Fourth Crusade did not lead to immediate shifts that can be observed in the material record of important regional centers such as Corinth. In fact, a significant change can be discerned several decades later, when Corinthian ceramic production declined and Italian imports predominated (Sanders 2000(Sanders , 2003Williams andZervos 1994, 1995).…”