Christie - Landscapes of Change

Edited by

NEIL CHRISTIE

University of Leicester, UK

Paul Arthur obtained both his BA and his PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London. In the 1980s he worked extensively in Naples and taught at the University of Salerno. Since 1998 he has been Professor in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Lecce. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal Medieval Archaeology. His fieldwork has included excavations and surveys in England, Italy, Libya, Turkey and the Ukraine. Research interests cover late antique and medieval/Byzantine settlement patterns and economy, cultural heritage management and ceramics, both medieval and art nouveau. The British School at Rome has recently published his volume Naples from Roman Town to City-State: An Archaeological Perspective (2002).

William Bowden received his BA from University College London and his PhD from the University of East Anglia. He currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of East Anglia. His previous employment includes extensive experience of British rescue archaeology and Italian archaeology, much of the latter working for the British School at Rome. He is actively involved in research projects at Butrint in southern Albania and Jerash in Jordan and his research interests include late antique urbanism and the use of the past in the construction of ancient and modern identities. His recent publications include Epirus Vetus: The Archaeology of a Late Antique Province (2003) and the co-edited volume Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology (Brill, 2003).

Alexandra Chavarra Arnau studied archaeology at the University of Barcelona and at the University of Paderborn where she has recently completed her PhD on the Functional Transformation of Spanish Villas in Late Antiquity (2003); she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Padova. She has participated in many surveys and excavations in Germany, France, and Spain as well as in Italy where she has also analysed historical constructions using the methodology of the Archaeology of Architecture. Her research and publication interests lie in Hispania during the late antique period in general and particularly in residential (urban and rural) and Christian architecture.

Neil Christie completed his BA and PhD at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne before receiving a British School at Rome scholarship to study Byzantine Liguria. In Rome he also undertook publication of the 1960s excavations of the papal church and monastery of Santa Cornelia. Further research on late Roman and early medieval Italian archaeology was pursued in a Sir James Knott Fellowship at Newcastle and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Oxford. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Leicester. Previous fieldwork has examined castles and landscapes in central Italy. Publications include The Lombards (Blackwell, 1995) and the co-edited volumes Towns in Transition (Scolar, 1996) and Towns and Their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Brill, 2001).

Ken Dark received a BA in archaeology from the University of York and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He then taught at Oxford and Cambridge before moving to his present post at the University of Reading, where he is Director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies. He has published extensively on the archaeology and history of the 1st millennium AD in Europe and the Mediterranean and on archaeological theory and method. He has directed numerous excavation and survey projects and holds honorary professorships and fellowships from several EU and US universities. His most recent publications include Britain and the End of the Roman Empire (Tempus, 2000) and Byzantine Pottery (Tempus, 2001).

Helena Hamerow received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her DPhil from the University of Oxford. Prior to becoming Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the University of Oxford, she was the Mary Somerville Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Early Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. Her research interests lie in the area of early medieval settlement studies. She is the author of Mucking: The Anglo-Saxon Settlement (English Heritage, 1993) and Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Settlements in Northwest Europe, 400900 (OUP, 2002).

Richard Hodges graduated from Southampton University in archaeology and medieval history; he taught at Sheffield University from 197695, and was Director of the British School at Rome (198895) and Director of the Prince of Waless Institute of Archaeology (199698) before founding the Institute of World Archaeology in the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He is currently involved in fieldwork projects in Albania, England, Italy and Turkey. Recent publications have included the