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Harbours of the Aegean in Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period : Thessaly, Maritime Connectivity, and the Eastern Mediterranean Seascape

by: Ginalis, A.

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Code: 30897
ISBN-13: 9781803279190 / 978-1-80327-919-0
ISBN-10: 1803279192 / 1-80327-919-2
Publisher: Archaeopress
Publication Date: 2025
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 278
Book Condition: New
Comments: H 290 x W 205 mm 252 figures, 3 tables (colour throughout) Published Jan 2025 Archaeopress Archaeology

Harbours of the Aegean in Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period
Thessaly, Maritime Connectivity, and the Eastern Mediterranean Seascape

By Alkiviadis Ginalis

A comprehensive study of Aegean harbours and maritime connectivity, focusing on both major and local infrastructures. It provides a framework for interpreting coastal facilities and examines the Byzantine East's port networks. Thessaly serves as a case study, with diverse maritime landscapes and activities from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Harbours of the Aegean in Late Antiquity and the Medieval Period presents the first comprehensive introduction to the archaeological study of harbours and maritime connectivity in the Aegean that goes beyond the investigation of individual sites. By synthesising the evidence for different harbour infrastructures and their functionality, a framework for the correct interpretation and thus hierarchical interaction of coastal facilities is developed. This offers a general understanding of the complex picture of seascapes in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the medieval periods.

 

In contrast to most studies, the book examines not only port cities and major harbour sites, but incorporates and focuses also on local and regional infrastructures as the diachronic backbone of the maritime economy. This results in a comprehensive analysis of historical and architectural developments, as well as an in-depth understanding of port networks and maritime connectivity in the Byzantine East.

 

A detailed archaeological examination of the province of Thessaly is used as a representative case study. It constitutes not only an ideal region to gain a balanced spread of information for the Early to the Late Byzantine periods, but also to compare independent regional and imperial building activities. Furthermore, by featuring very diverse maritime and coastal landscapes, it encompasses a large variety of coastal sites and thus reflects the full spectrum of maritime activities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. These include gulfs, open coastlines, peninsulas, archipelagos and river deltas.


Contents
Preface

 

I. Introduction

The purpose and methodology of this study – State of research

The chronological and geographical framework

 

II. The Understanding and Interpretation of Harbour Sites

Introduction

Function, purpose and hierarchy of coastal installations

Characteristics and elements of harbour structures

 

III. The Coastal Sites of Thessaly

Introduction

The western coast of the Pagasetic Gulf

The Pelion peninsula

Aghia

The Pineios river delta

The Northern Sporades

 

IV. Conclusions: Byzantine Ports – Tradition or Innovation

The history of Thessaly?s coastal sites

The harbour architecture from the Early to the Late Byzantine periods

Port network and the hierarchy of coastal installations

 

Bibliography


About the Author
Alkiviadis Ginalis is a Byzantine Maritime Archaeologist who specialises in seafaring and harbour studies of the Late Antique and medieval periods. He obtained his BA and MA in Byzantine Studies and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna and his PhD at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology of Oxford University. After a Marie-Curie Fellowship with a European Union funded research project on ?Aegean Port networks of the Roman to Byzantine periods?, he held a Research Fellowship at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. Currently he works as a Research Lecturer for Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Head of the Archives at the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute.

 
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