Introduction

Archibald Dunn*

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Abstract

Byzantine Greece seems rather familiar because of its ubiquitous presence in modern Greece, where beautifully conserved monuments and gleaming new museums promote Byzantium, where placenames, surnames, and attractively crumbling ruins evoke it, and where the language recalls it. But if we try to tie those sites and monuments - those ubiquitous basilicas and small Middle Byzantine cruciform churches, those forts and town walls - into accounts of Byzantium, or into local histories of the kinds which are possible across much of the West, we quickly encounter a host of well-known problems. As a consequence, Byzantine Greece is not as familiar as it might seem at first glance. But is it inaccessible? Parts of Greece are relatively rich in regional archives. It is relatively rich in epigraphic and sigillographic material. And the archaeological exploration of Byzantine Greece is relatively intense. Specific categories of this material already enrich Byzantine Studies as a whole (studies of its art and architecture, of “the city”, of the economy, and of social classes, for instance). But these categories of data can often be correlated with each other, given their geographical or topographical aspect, to illuminate Byzantine Greece itself at regional and sub-regional levels.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationByzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire?
Subtitle of host publicationPapers from the Forty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies
EditorsArchibald Dunn
Place of PublicationThe United Kingdom
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter1
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781003429470
ISBN (Print)9781032551968, 9781032551975
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Aug 2022
EventByzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? - University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Mar 201325 Mar 2013

Publication series

NamePublications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
PublisherRoutledge

Conference

ConferenceByzantine Greece
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityBirmingham
Period23/03/1325/03/13

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