The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies

Understanding Urban Transformation in Amorium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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Abstract

The excavation of Amorium already from the late 1980s and until today has been pioneering a hands-on approach to the study of urban evolution by exploring a major early medieval and middle Byzantine provincial capital that after the 7th century and until the 11th played a paramount role in the forefront of Byzantine history. Especially the ‘prehistory’ of the excavation of Amorium is shown to have been an early episode in the famous Kazhdan-Ostrogorsky debate on the survival of Byzantine cities into the Middle Ages. At the same time, the paper presents how this tradition endures in the new phase of the Amorium Project by continuing on the basic principles set and expanding on new questions as the articulation of built civic space and the later medieval transition from Byzantine to Seljuk and Ottoman.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Presentato: 16 Maggio 2022 | Accettato: 27 Maggio 2022 | Pubblicato 22 Agosto 2022 | Lingua: en

Keywords Transitional period • Amorium • Byzantine archaeology • Urban archaeology • Survival of cities • Asia Minor • Anatolia

Copyright © 2022 Zeliha Demirel-Gökalp, Nikos Tsivikis. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2/018


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