Knossos and Heraklion in the Byzantine-Islamic transition (late 7th – mid-10th century) An archaeological perspective into shifting patterns of settlement ruralisation and urbanisation on medieval Crete

Randazzo, Matteo G.

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“…The growing interest in these time periods has resulted in an increased number of research projects, workshops, congresses, and publications over the last 15 years. While the Roman, Late Antique/Protobyzantine, and Early Byzantine periods have been receiving greater attention for some time now, and it is predominantly these earlier phases that this article will report on, it is only in the last five years that the transitional periods from Byzantine to Islamic to Venetian Crete have begun to receive more archaeological attention (Randazzo 2019; 2020; Coutsinas et al 2022).…”

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4 The past 15 years of archaeological work on Roman and Byzantine Crete

Moles

2023

Arch. Rep.

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This article aims to overview the last 15 years of archaeological work on Crete (2007–2022) for the Roman and Byzantine periods. It is a resource that can provide the first step in the research process for those looking to investigate these time periods in Crete. It not only communicates recent discoveries and research, but also directs scholars to earlier key publications – which this article follows on from – and to an extensive bibliography of recently published research. After covering the main publications of the last 15 years and the workshops, congresses, and conferences that have taken place, it organizes the recent archaeological discoveries by site type. It begins by covering surveys of both the landscape and those conducted underwater that have been extensive across and around Crete. It then covers public buildings and infrastructure, domestic architecture, production and craft, and cemeteries. While it is not a complete listing of all finds, it summarizes the key discoveries, publications, and events in order to demonstrate the major developments for study of these time periods in Crete.

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4 The past 15 years of archaeological work on Roman and Byzantine Crete

Moles

2023

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Urbanism in the Byzantine Heartland and the Coastal/Insular koine

Zavagno

2021

The Byzantine City From Heraclius to the Fourth Crusade, 610–1204

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“The Navigators”. Mediterranean Cities and Urban Spaces in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600 – ca. 850 CE)

Zavagno

2023

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The aim of the paper is to reassess urban trajectories in the Mediterranean during the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. This will be done by focusing on the sites of Amorium, Gortyn, Eleutherna, and Comacchio, places which transcend both the terrestrial and maritime, and the political and military frontiers of the Byzantine empire and the Umayyad Caliphate. Archaeology and material culture will be used – in a comparative perspective – to dissect urban bodies in terms of use of space and function of spatial relationship. This is in order to document the construction of urban models, structures, and infrastructures, which, although often stemming from diverse centralized political and administrative policies, nevertheless accommodated common, cross-cultural developments, including the creation of commercial and artisanal facilities, construction or restoration of religious buildings as foci of settlement, and resilience of local elites as a catalyst of patronage and levels of demand. Particular attention will be given to the role of public spaces as the frame of reference. Indeed, such spaces will be used to show how artistic and architectural displays operated, cultural assumptions could be (re-) discussed, and different types of buildings coexisted. In this respect, the paper will also explore the continuous importance of civic infrastructures and religious buildings as pillars of a yet coherent urban fabric, representatives of the power and wealth of local city-oriented elites, and conveyors of political, artistic, and spatial symbolism, as mutually recognized and experienced by the communities frequenting seventh-to-ninth century eastern Mediterranean urban spaces.

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Knossos and Heraklion in the Byzantine-Islamic transition (late 7th – mid-10th century) An archaeological perspective into shifting patterns of settlement ruralisation and urbanisation on medieval Crete

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

4 The past 15 years of archaeological work on Roman and Byzantine Crete

4 The past 15 years of archaeological work on Roman and Byzantine Crete

Urbanism in the Byzantine Heartland and the Coastal/Insular koine

“The Navigators”. Mediterranean Cities and Urban Spaces in the Passage from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600 – ca. 850 CE)

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