دانلود کتاب Byzantine Epirus. A Topography of Transformation: Settlements of the Seventh-Twelfth Centuries in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece

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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part One. Study of a Changing Landscape
1. On the Remains of Middle Byzantine Epirus
2. A Geographical Outline of Byzantine Epirus (Seventh–Twelfth Centuries)
2.I. Definition, Political Geography and Relevant Toponymy
2.ΙΙ. Physical Geography and Selection of the Research Area
2.III. Landscape Evolution: Geomorphological Landforms and Processes
2.IV. Human Geography
Part Two. Material Culture
1. Architecture
1.I. Building Typology and Use
1.I.1. Fortifications
1.I.2. Religious Buildings
1.I.3. Burial Spaces
1.I.4. Secular Buildings
1.I.5. Industrial Buildings
1.I.6. Water Supply Facilities and Water System Management
1.I.7. Road System
1.I.8. Harbour Facilities
1.II. Building Construction
1.II.1. Building Materials and Methods
1.II.2. Morphological Features and Chronology of Masonries
1.III. Conclusions
2. Dedicatory Inscriptions on or in Buildings
2.I. The Inscriptions
2.II. Conclusions
3. Monumental Art and Sculpture
3.I. Opus Sectile, Marble-Inlay, Mosaic and Fresco Decorations
3.II. Architectural Sculptures
3.III. Conclusions
4. Artefacts
4.I. Ceramics and Tiles
4.II. Metalwork
4.III. Glass
4.IV. Lead Seals
4.V. Numismatic Finds
4.VI. Conclusions
Part Three. Habitation
1. The Chronology, Typology, Transformation, Networks and Economy of Settlements
1.I. The Chronology of Settlements
1.II. The Typology and Transformation of Settlements
1.II.a. Fortified Settlements
1.II.b. Unfortified Settlements
1.II.c. Monastic Settlements
1.III. Network of Routes and Settlements
1.IV. Economic Activities
2. The Geographical Dimension of Settlement: Non-Systematic Extensive Survey and the Historicity of Space in Archaeology
3. Aspects of the Transformation of Settlement within the Context of the Medieval Mediterranean
3.I. Historical and Archaeological Evidence: \'Different Sources, Different Histories?\'
3.I.1. Theoretical Problems Relating to Medieval Settlement in \'Epirus\' and the Mediterranean
3.II. A Reconstruction of Settlement in \'Epirus\'
3.II.1. The Islands
3.II.2. The Mainland
3.II.3. A Correlation of Historical Settlements with Archaeological Evidence
3.III. Conclusions
Part Four. The Case of Southern Middle Byzantine Epirus
Concluding Remarks
Part Five. Inventory of 7th–12th-Century Sites in Middle Byzantine Southern Epirus
5.I. Introduction
5.II. The Sites
Appendices
I. Material Culture Inventory
I.1. Dedicatory Inscriptions on or in Buildings
I.2. Opus Sectile, Marble-inlay, Mosaic and Fresco Decorations
I.3. Architectural Sculpture
I.4. Ceramics and Tiles
I.5. Metalwork
I.6. Glass
I.7. Lead Seals
I.8. Numismatic Finds
II. Abstracts of Byzantine Texts Used in Translation in this Work
III. Geomorphological Changes in Lowlands Caused by Fluvial Sedimentation
Bibliography
Index of Middle Byzantine Sites in Southern Epirus and Aetoloacarnania, Greece
Index of Names
Illustrations