{"product_id":"recent-research-on-the-late-antique-countryside-9789004136076","title":"Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores the late antique countryside, looking at social and political life, landscape change, villas, monasteries, pilgrimage sites and the fate of rural temples. A section is devoted to recent survey work in Turkey and a comprehensive bibliographic essay frames the work. With contributions by Alexandra Chavarría, Tamara Lewit, Peter Sarris, Frank R. Trombley, Beatrice Caseau, John Mitchell, Marcus Rautman, Douglas Baird, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Femke Martens, Marc Waelkens, Jeroen Poblome, Joanita Vroom, Carla Sfameni, Lynda Mulvin, Joseph Patrich, Beat Brenk, Etienne Louis, Fabio Saggioro and Archie Dunn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements List of Contributors The Late Antique Countryside: An Introduction William Bowden and Luke Lavan  Part One: Bibliographic Essay Archaeological Research on the Late Antique Countryside: A Bibliographic Essay Alexandra CHavarria\u0026amp; Tamara Lewit  Part Two: Economic and Social Life Rehabilitating the Great Estate: Aristocratic Property and Economic Growth in the Late Antique East Peter Sarris Epigraphic Data on Village Culture and Social Institutions: an Interregional Comparison (Syria, Phoenice Libanensis and Arabia) Frank R. Trombley  Part Three: Sacred Landscapes The Fate of Rural Temples in Late Antiquity and the Christianisation of the Countryside Beatrice Caseau The Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Late Antique Albania: The Basilica of the Forty Martyrs John Mitchell  Part Four: Recent Rural Survey in Turkey and Adjacent Regions Valley and Village in Late Roman Cyprus Marcus Rautman Settlement Expansion on the Konya Plain, Anatolia: 5th-7th Centuries A.D. Douglas Baird Late Antiquity in the Territory of Sagalassos Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Femke Martens, Marc Waelkens\u0026amp; Jeroen Poblome Late Antique Pottery, Settlement and Trade in the East Mediterranean: A Preliminary Comparison of Ceramics from Limyra (Lycia)  and Boeotia Joanita Vroom  Part Five: Villas in Late Antiquity Residential Villas in Late Antique Italy: Continuity and Change Carla Sfameni Late  Roman Villas in Late Antique Italy: Continuity and Change Carla Sfameni Late Roman Villa Plans: The Danube-Balkan Region Lynda Mulvin  Part Six: Rural Monasteries Monastic Landscapes Joseph Patrich Monasteries as Rural Settlements: Patron-dependence or Self-sufficiency? Beat Bank  Part Seven: Landscape Change from Gaul to the Balkans A de-Romanised Landscape in Northen Gaul: The Scarpe Valley from the 4th to 9th Century AD Etienne Louis Late Antique Settlement on the Plain of Verona Fabio Saggioro Continuity and Change in the Macedonian Countryside, from Gallienus to Justian Archie Dunn  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210595983703,"sku":"9789004136076","price":156.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/recent-research-on-the-late-antique-countryside-9789004136076","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}