Collana | Studi e ricerche
Miscellanea | Adriatico altomedievale (VI-XI secolo)
Capitolo | 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

Presentato: 25 Agosto 2016 | Accettato: 17 Settembre 2016 | Pubblicato 12 Luglio 2017 | Lingua: it

Keywords Middle AgesByzantineAdriatic


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