Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside

Luke A. Lavan, Ph.D. (2001) in Archaeology, University of Nottingham is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.William Bowden, Ph.D. (2000) in Archaeology, University of East Anglia, is Packard Research Fellow in the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia and a co-director of excavations at Butrint, Albania.Carlos Machado is a doctoral student in Ancient History, Linacre College at Oxford University, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science (CNPQ). He is working on the political use of space in late antique Rome, and the appropriation of urban space by the aristocracy, the church and the imperial court.

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsThe Late Antique Countryside: An Introduction William Bowden and Luke LavanPart One: Bibliographic EssayArchaeological Research on the Late Antique Countryside: A Bibliographic Essay Alexandra CHavarria& Tamara LewitPart Two: Economic and Social LifeRehabilitating the Great Estate: Aristocratic Property and Economic Growth in the Late Antique East Peter SarrisEpigraphic Data on Village Culture and Social Institutions: an Interregional Comparison (Syria, Phoenice Libanensis and Arabia) Frank R. TrombleyPart Three: Sacred LandscapesThe Fate of Rural Temples in Late Antiquity and the Christianisation of the Countryside Beatrice CaseauThe Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Late Antique Albania: The Basilica of the Forty Martyrs John MitchellPart Four: Recent Rural Survey in Turkey and Adjacent RegionsValley and Village in Late Roman Cyprus Marcus RautmanSettlement Expansion on the Konya Plain, Anatolia: 5th-7th Centuries A.D. Douglas BairdLate Antiquity in the Territory of Sagalassos Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Femke Martens, Marc Waelkens& Jeroen PoblomeLate Antique Pottery, Settlement and Trade in the East Mediterranean: A Preliminary Comparison of Ceramics from Limyra (Lycia) and Boeotia Joanita VroomPart Five: Villas in Late AntiquityResidential Villas in Late Antique Italy: Continuity and Change Carla SfameniLate Roman Villas in Late Antique Italy: Continuity and Change Carla SfameniLate Roman Villa Plans: The Danube-Balkan Region Lynda MulvinPart Six: Rural MonasteriesMonastic Landscapes Joseph PatrichMonasteries as Rural Settlements: Patron-dependence or Self-sufficiency? Beat BankPart Seven: Landscape Change from Gaul to the BalkansA de-Romanised Landscape in Northen Gaul: The Scarpe Valley from the 4th to 9th Century AD Etienne LouisLate Antique Settlement on the Plain of Verona Fabio SaggioroContinuity and Change in the Macedonian Countryside, from Gallienus to Justian Archie DunnIndex