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“Rural Towns” and “In-Between” or “Third” Spaces. Settlement Patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th c.) from an interdisciplinary approach

“Rural Towns” and “In-Between” or “Third” Spaces. Settlement Patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th c.) from an interdisciplinary approach

By Myrto Veikou

Archaeologia Medievale, Vol.36 (2009)

Abstract: This paper constitutes the second part of an effort to re-evaluate the available analytical categories for settlements from an interdisciplinary post-processual approach. The first part was published as “Urban or Rural? Theoretical remarks on Settlement patterns in Byzantine Epirus (7th-11th centuries)” in the Byzantinische Zeitschrift 103/1 (2010) 171-193. A preliminary version of both papers was presented during the Conference ‘Town and countryside in the Mediterranean’ at the University of Athens in May 2007.

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This second part puts on the table the underlying assumptions in research that interpretations of historical settlement should take as a given a clear dichotomy between distinct “urban” and “rural” spaces and the bipolar “urban-rural” hermeneutical schemes, based on recent archaeological and geographic research.

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