1st Edition
Beyond Icons Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America
Introduction
Assembling the Fragments of Byzantine Archaeology
Kostis Kourelis
Chapter 1
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
Chapter 2
Settlement Patterns, Regional Diversity, and a Long-Lived Landscape: Exploring Byzantium through Regional Survey
Fotini Kondyli
Chapter 3
Constructing Relationships from Destruction: Perspectives on Stratigraphic Context in Byzantine Archaeology
Adam Rabinowitz
Chapter 4
Dream Archaeology
William R. Caraher & Kostis Kourelis
Chapter 5
Archaeological Indicators for a Monastic Habitus
Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
Chapter 6
Space and Place: Experiencing Sinai's Monastic Landscape
Ann Marie Yasin
Chapter 7
An Archaeology of Sound and Space in the Byzantine World
Amy Papalexandrou
Chapter 8
Public Space, Private Space: Gender Theory and Feminism in Byzantine Archaeology
Marica Cassis
Chapter 9
Household Acculturation: Millstones and Byzantine Dark Age Domestic Economy at Isthmia, Greece
Nick Kardulias
Chapter 10
Reflections on Context: Byzantine Archaeology in North America and the Golden Age of Dumbarton Oaks
Margaret Mullett
Biography
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.
