1st Edition
The Byzantine Neighbourhood Urban Space and Political Action
Introduction: A Neighborhood Perspective on Byzantine Cities
Benjamin Anderson and Fotini Kondyli
Part I: Defining Byzantine Neighborhoods
1. The View from Byzantine Texts
Albrecht Berger
2. The View from Byzantine Archaeology
Fotini Kondyli
Part II: Byzantine Neighborhoods as Social Spaces
3. Who is the Person Living Next Door? Neighborly Relations in Early Byzantine Assos
Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan
4. Urban Space and Collective Action in Late Antique Arisnoë
Amy Papalexandrou, William Caraher, and R. Scott Moore
5. Water and Social Relationships in Early Byzantine Neighborhoods
Jordan Pickett
Part III: Byzantine Neighborhoods as Political Agents
6. The Oxeia: A Neighborhood Biography
Benjamin Anderson
7. Gortyn, Eleutherna, and Their Neighborhoods: The Politics of Transformation (4th-Early 9th Centuries)
Christina Tsigonaki
8. A Tale of Two Cities: Thebes and Chalcis in a World of Change (9th-15th Centuries)
Nikos D. Kontogiannis
9. Privacy, Friendship, and Social Regulation in Byzantine Neighborhoods
Leonora Neville
Biography
Fotini Kondyli is Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Virginia.
Benjamin Anderson is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Classics at Cornell University.
