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1 - The Adriatic Sea 500–1100

A Corrupted Alterity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

By
Richard Hodges
Edited by
Magdalena Skoblar
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Summary

This essay uses the stratigraphic large-scale excavations of Post-Roman Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, on the Straits of Corfu as a new source of evidence to examine the economic history of the Adriatic Sea region between the seventh and the eleventh centuries. The archaeology depicts the measured transformation of one key site that permits new interpretations of the Adriatic Sea, its history and archaeology to made. Interpretations ofPost-Roman history of the Mediterranean Sea as a whole are discussed, showing how archaeology is beginning to reframe the nature and character of western Byzantine intervention in this region.

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Adriatic SeaMediterraneanByzantiumVagnetiaButrintarchaeological excavationslong-distance trade
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Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic
Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453
 , pp. 15 - 44
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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