ARTH 4354 - [Byzantine Archaeology]

(crosslisted) ARKEO 4354, NES 4354
(HB) (ALC-AS, HA-AS, HST-AS)

Fall. Not offered: 2022-2023. Next offered: 2024-2025. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with ARKEO 6354/ARTH 6354/CLASS 6754/NES 6354.

B. Anderson.

A seminar on the archaeology of the Byzantine Empire, from the late Roman through to the early modern periods. Topics to be covered include: long-term changes in settlement patterns and urban development; the material traces of state and monastic control over productive landscapes; the idea of the border and the nature of its defense; and the fraught relationship between “Byzantine” and “classical” archaeologies.