Seasides of Byzantium

Download or read book Seasides of Byzantium written by Johannes Preisler-Kapeller and published by Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General phenomena such as the organisation of the Byzantine navy and its operations or lighthouses are discussed in this volume as well as new geoarchaeological research methodologies in harbour archaeology. Most contributions in the present volume examine case studies for the most important maritime core region of the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean. This sea connected the remaining provinces of the empire in Southeastern Europe and Asia Minor after the loss of Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa to the Arabs in the 7th century A.D. In addition to technical and geographical aspect, the studies in this volume make clear that we need to explore more and more the social embedding of the seasides of Byzantium to understand their dynamics in all their complexity.