More Than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69787-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 339 Seiten, Format (B × H): 212 mm x 294 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g

Reihe: Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series)

The church annexes of late antique Cyprus were bustling places of industry, producing olive oil, flour, bread, ceramics, and metal products. From its earliest centuries, the church was an economic player, participating in agricultural and artisanal production.

More than a Church brings together architecture, ceramics, numismatics, landscape archaeology, and unpublished excavation material, alongside consideration of Cyprus’s dynamic and prosperous 4th–10th-century history. Keane offers a rich picture of the association between sacred buildings and agricultural and industrial facilities—comprehensively presenting, for the first time, the church’s economic role and impact in late antique Cyprus.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keane, Catherine T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Illustrations

1 Introduction

1 Research Context and Significance

2 Methodology and Organisation

2 The Byzantine Empire and Cyprus in Late Antiquity

3 New Roles of the Church in Late Antiquity

1 Shifting Roles of the Church in Late Antiquity

2 The State of Research on the Late Antique Economy and Church

4 Olive Oil Presses: beyond Local Sustenance

1 Olive Oil Sites in Cyprus

2 Basilica C, Agios Georgios, Pegeia

3 Agia Varvara, Amathous

4 Panagia Chrysopolitissa, Nea Paphos

5 Summary Remarks

5 The Flour and Bread Industry: Post-Destruction Activity?

1 Bread, Flour, and Grain

2 Cypriot Sites

3 Episcopal Basilica of Amathous

4 Post-destruction Industry: Continuity or Squatting?

5 Summary Remarks

6 Ceramic Kilns: Reinterpreting a Lime Kiln at a Coastal Basilica

1 Description of Kourion’s Coastal Basilica

2 Lime Kiln

3 Phasing of Church and Annexes

4 Regional Context

5 Ceramic Kilns in Cyprus

6 Summary Remarks

7 The Troodos and Copper: Christianising the Landscape

1 Introduction

2 Soloi and Its Hinterland

3 Mitsero and Tamassos

4 Kalavasos and the Vasilikos Valley

5 South-Western Troodos

6 Agios Kononas

7 Polis / Arsinoe

8 Summary of Mining across the Troodos

9 Landscape and Environment

8 The Church and Economy beyond Late Antiquity

1 Beyond Late Antiquity

2 Church-Building Activity

3 Economic Indications

9 Conclusion

1 Summary

2 Discussion

Bibliography

Abbreviations

Ancient Textual Editions

Modern Sources

Appendix: Gazetteer

Index of Themes

Index of Places

Index of People

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine T. Keane, Ph.D. (2021), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, is a postdoctoral researcher at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Her publications and research focus on the church’s economic roles and resilience, undertaken at Koç University Istanbul, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, and the Universität Tübingen.