The early modern Zagori of Northwest Greece

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6428-037-1
Verlag: Sidestone Press Dissertations

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 1007 g

Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their core. This investigation of Zagori in Northwest Greece explores the archaeology and cultural history of a mountainous area that famously thrived in the Ottoman period.

Thisengagement with an upland region in the early modern period sheds light on previously neglected aspects of Greek landscape history. The inclusive methodology combines critical historiography, archival research, oral history and landscape-archaeological survey to achieve novel insights into this montane landscape and its distinctive history and cultural heritage.

Contrary to the dominant nationalist historiography, it demonstrates the continuity of regional elites from the Byzantine to Ottoman period in Epirus and reveals how this shaped settlement patterns and elite/non-elite sedentary adaptations in this montane region. It also gives voice from within to the labour-intensive,engendered, cultural landscape of the Zagori peasantry and challenges the view of external scholarly observers that mountains support a predominantly pastoral way of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, Faidon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Zagori today
Chapter Two: An alternative version of history
Chapter Three: Ottoman Archaeology in Greece
Chapter Four: An Inclusive Dataset and Methodology
Chapter Five: New realities. The local narrative, Ottoman historiography and archaeology
Chapter Six: A topography of adaptations. Archaeological insights into the Zagori (14th-19th c.)
Chapter Seven: Zagori through the 16th-century Ottoman imperial registers
Chapter Eight: Non-elite landscapes
Chapter Nine: Synthesis

Über Autor(innen)

Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, Faidon
Dr. Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou:

Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete in 2013. He completed his MA in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield (2014) focussing on t

Dr. Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou:

Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete in 2013. He completed his MA in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield (2014) focussing on t