Luca Zavagno
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265858 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Zavagno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Zavagno |
| SIGNATURE | ZAVAGNO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bilkent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2450-3182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Byzantine Insular Countryside in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-ca.900)
The sublime objects of liminality’
This paper focuses on the historical development and dynamics of political and administrative structures in regions of a fragmented empire that cannot be simply described as marginal ‘mouseholes’. Rather, it should be acknowledged that these spaces were part and parcel of a wider area (the Byzantine insular and coastal koine ) , which encompassed coastal areas as well as insular communities promoting socio-economic contact and cultural interchang…
The Way We Were
Just a few months after Barbra Streisand (as Katie) and Robert Redford (as Hubbell) featured in The Way We Were , Clive Foss published the first of his many seminal works of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It focused on the transformation experienced by twenty Anatolian cities cited by Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his De Thematibus ; the main idea was to prove that urban life, upon which the classical Mediterranean culture had been based, came …
Modelling the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Costiera Amalfitana
Human activity along the Amalfi coastline in Italy has been tied to the sea for millennia – for sustenance, migration, trade, warfare, and leisure. As a result, this region has an equally rich and extensive maritime cultural landscape composed of tangible and intangible elements. In 2016, a multi-disciplinary project began efforts to model and to understand changes within this landscape, and this essay presents the preliminary results of our firs…
Islands in the stream”
Byzantine historiography has often regarded the large Mediterranean islands (Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics) as mere peripheral additions to the Byzantine heartland – defined as the coupling of two different geographical zones: the Anatolian plateau and the Aegean. As a result, Byzantinists seem not to have fully moved away from an interpretative framework which regards islands as either strategic military bulwarks along the Ara…
Medieval tastes
‘Man is what he eats.’1 This well-known quotation from the nineteenth-century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach is regularly used to remind us that the food we consume has more than a simple func
Acteurs des transferts culturels en Méditerranée médiévale
A wonderful city of palms and dates’
The article focuses on Salamis-Constantia, the political and ecclesiastical capital of the island of Cyprus, from the 360s to the tenth century, marking the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. The aim here is to debunk the historiographical model proposed for interpreting the declining fortunes of Cypriot urban sites, while at the same time applying the category of transition in order to explain the changes experienced in the lo…
Mediterranean World or Worlds of the Mediterranean
Modelling the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Costiera Amalfitana
Human activity along the Amalfi coastline in Italy has been tied to the sea for millennia – for sustenance, migration, trade, warfare, and leisure. As a result, this region has an equally rich and extensive maritime cultural landscape composed of tangible and intangible elements. In 2016, a multi-disciplinary project began efforts to model and to understand changes within this landscape, and this essay presents the preliminary results of our firs…
Islands in the stream”
Byzantine historiography has often regarded the large Mediterranean islands (Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics) as mere peripheral additions to the Byzantine heartland – defined as the coupling of two different geographical zones: the Anatolian plateau and the Aegean. As a result, Byzantinists seem not to have fully moved away from an interpretative framework which regards islands as either strategic military bulwarks along the Ara…
Mediterranean World or Worlds of the Mediterranean
Acteurs des transferts culturels en Méditerranée médiévale
A wonderful city of palms and dates’
The article focuses on Salamis-Constantia, the political and ecclesiastical capital of the island of Cyprus, from the 360s to the tenth century, marking the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. The aim here is to debunk the historiographical model proposed for interpreting the declining fortunes of Cypriot urban sites, while at the same time applying the category of transition in order to explain the changes experienced in the lo…
Medieval tastes
‘Man is what he eats.’1 This well-known quotation from the nineteenth-century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach is regularly used to remind us that the food we consume has more than a simple func
Islands in the stream”
Byzantine historiography has often regarded the large Mediterranean islands (Cyprus, Crete, Sardinia, Malta and the Balearics) as mere peripheral additions to the Byzantine heartland – defined as the coupling of two different geographical zones: the Anatolian plateau and the Aegean. As a result, Byzantinists seem not to have fully moved away from an interpretative framework which regards islands as either strategic military bulwarks along the Ara…
Modelling the Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Costiera Amalfitana
Human activity along the Amalfi coastline in Italy has been tied to the sea for millennia – for sustenance, migration, trade, warfare, and leisure. As a result, this region has an equally rich and extensive maritime cultural landscape composed of tangible and intangible elements. In 2016, a multi-disciplinary project began efforts to model and to understand changes within this landscape, and this essay presents the preliminary results of our firs…
The Byzantine Insular Countryside in the Early Middle Ages (ca. 600-ca.900)
The sublime objects of liminality’
This paper focuses on the historical development and dynamics of political and administrative structures in regions of a fragmented empire that cannot be simply described as marginal ‘mouseholes’. Rather, it should be acknowledged that these spaces were part and parcel of a wider area (the Byzantine insular and coastal koine ) , which encompassed coastal areas as well as insular communities promoting socio-economic contact and cultural interchang…
The Way We Were
Just a few months after Barbra Streisand (as Katie) and Robert Redford (as Hubbell) featured in The Way We Were , Clive Foss published the first of his many seminal works of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It focused on the transformation experienced by twenty Anatolian cities cited by Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his De Thematibus ; the main idea was to prove that urban life, upon which the classical Mediterranean culture had been based, came …
History (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Byzantine architecture (4 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Middle Ages (4 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (3 works)