Beyond icons : theories and methods in Byzantine archaeology in North America /

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Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Description:1 online resource ( vi, 279 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
Language:English
Series:Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; volume 34
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; v. 34.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14135902
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Other authors / contributors:Caraher, William R. (William Rodney), 1972- editor, author.
Kourelis, Kostas, editor, author.
Brooks Hedstrom, Darlene L., editor, author.
Mullett, Margaret, author.
ISBN:9781003325383
1003325386
9781040146194
1040146198
9781040146224
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9781032351179
9781032351186
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
William R. Caraher is an archaeologist and historian who teaches in the Department of History and American Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota. He has worked in Greece, Cyprus, and North America and studies the archaeology of Late Antiquity, Early Christianity, and the contemporary world. Kostis Kourelis is an architectural historian who teaches in the Department of Visual Arts at Franklin & Marshall College. His research focuses on the buildings and landscapes of forced migration in the medieval and modern periods. He explores the history of humanitarianism and the relationship between radical art practices and archaeology. His current fieldwork centers on refugee camps in Greece, Japanese incarceration camps in the American West, ethnic neighborhoods in the United States, underground music venues, and deserted villages. Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom is the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Associate Professor of Christian studies at Brandeis University in the Departments of Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies. Brooks Hedstrom is an archaeologist and historian of ancient and medieval Christianity of the eastern Mediterranean world. She examines the history of monastic makers of Late Antique objects and spaces and is the author of The Monastic Landscape in Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction and Desert Ascetics in Egypt (2017). Brooks Hedstrom is the Senior Archaeological Consultant for the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project-North.
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Other form:Print version: Beyond icons New York : Routeldge, 2025 9781032351179
Standard no.:10.4324/9781003325383
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Assembling the fragments of Byzantine archaeology / Kostis Kourelis
  • High-resolution survey and the new quest for the Byzantine landscape: a case study from the Corinthia, Greece / David K. Pettegrew and William R. Caraher
  • Settlement patterns, regional diversity and a long-lived landscape: exploring Byzantium through regional survey / Fotini Kondyli
  • Constructing relationships from destruction: perspectives on stratigraphic context in Byzantine archaeology / Adam Rabinowitz
  • Dream archaeology / William R. Caraher & Kostis Kourelis
  • Archaeological indicators for a monastic habitus / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
  • Space and place: experiencing Sinai's monastic landscape / Ann Marie Yasin
  • An archaeology of sound and space in the Byzantine world / Amy Papalexandrou
  • Public space, private space: gender theory and feminism in Byzantine archaeology / Marica Cassis
  • Household acculturation: Millstones and Byzantine Dark Age domestice economy at Isthmia, Greece / P. Nick Kardulias
  • Reflections on context: Byzantine archaeology in North America and the Golden Age of Dumbarton Oaks / Margaret Mullett