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Butrint 4
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Inge Lyse Hansen
Oxbow Books
Richard Hodges
Sarah Leppard
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- ISBN 9781842174623
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Oxbow Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée . Firstly, the book proposes a new paradigm for the development-history of Butrint - based on discussions of the latest archaeological, historical and landscape studies from approximately 20 new excavations and surveys, together covering a temporal arch from prehistory to the early modern period. Secondly, it examines how the perception of the city influenced the archaeological methodology of 20th-century studies of the site, where iteration and reversal were often being applied in equal measure. In this it asks important questions on the management of heritage sites and the contemporary role of archaeological practise.
Inge Lyse Hansen is Adjunct Professor of Art History at John Cabot University and specialises in the visual and material culture of the Roman world. She has published on portraiture, funerary art and the use of role models and patronage and has edited several archaeological volumes. Richard Hodges is Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation, a leading medieval archaeologist and the author of more than 20 books. Sarah Leppard has led or participated in more than 15 excavations in eight countries and has managed major excavations at Butrint.
Richard Hodges is a leading international scholar in provincial Roman archaeology. Heis currently President of the American University in Rome. And formerly the Director ofthe British School at Rome. He led the project to create a National Park with Butrint asthe scientific centre and the successful bid to have it designated a UNESCO WorldHeritage Site and leads up the publication programme for the Butrint Foundation
