Series | Studi e ricerche
Edited book | Adriatico altomedievale (VI-XI secolo)
Chapter | Butrint

Butrint

Never a ‘non-place’

Abstract

This short essay takes its direction from Marc Auge’s definitions of places and non-places. It reviews the settlement shifts at Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, between late antiquity and the 12th century. Butrint had been a place since the late Republic, if not earlier; a centre associated with mythic origins and healing. Located in at least three different places, Butrint after antiquity took three different physical forms, but appears to have sustained its association with a mythic past. Remaining not only a trading centre of varying importance, did the memory of its antiquity safeguard its continuity albeit in very different locations and settlement forms?



Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Aug. 25, 2016 | Accepted: Sept. 17, 2016 | Published July 12, 2017 | Language: it

Keywords Middle AgesByzantineAdriatic


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