After antiquity : ceramics and society in the Aegean from the 7th to 20th century A.C. : a case study from Boeotia, Central Greece

This richly illustrated study offers a comprehensive discussion of medieval and post-medieval pottery from central Greece and the Aegean, and considers the relationship between pottery and Mediterranean society, economy and culture in the post-Roman periods. The main part of the book focuses on pottery from Boeotia, particularly ceramics collected by the Cambridge and Bradford Boeotia intensive survey project. Vroom combines ceramic data from thirty selected Boeotian sites in order to create a regional classification system with 48 diagnostic wares, ranging from locally produced Red Slip wares and amphorae to imported glazed wares from Italy and Turkey. She explores the cultural, technological and socio-economic aspects of local pottery production and distribution, using archaeological, documentary and ethnographic evidence, but also considers the wider picture when looking at the imported tin-glazed wares from the 16th to 18th centuries. In the last part of the book, Vroom combines her study of pottery with a wide range of documentary and pictorial sources to discuss the history of dining habits in the eastern Mediterranean during the Late Roman, Byzantine, 'Turkish' and Early Modern periods.

Author Notes

Joanita Vroom works as a specialist on Post-Roman pottery on various archaeological projects throughout the eastern Mediterranean. She is currently Research Fellow at the Institute of World Archaeology of the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

List of Figures	p. 11
List of Tables	p. 17
Acknowledgements	p. 19
Introduction--Aim and Scope of This Book	p. 21
Part I Post-Roman Ceramics in the Aegean: Problems and Possibilities
1 Post-Roman Ceramics in the Aegean As an Archaeological Problem	p. 25
1.1 Introduction	p. 25
1.2 Problems in chronology and terminology	p. 25
1.3 Summary	p. 29
2 Research into Post-Roman Ceramics in the Aegean: A Methodological-Historical Survey	p. 31
2.1 Introduction	p. 31
2.2 The pioneers	p. 31
2.3 The Interbellum	p. 36
2.4 The period after the Second World War	p. 40
2.5 Summary	p. 46
3 The Current State of Knowledge of Post-Roman Ceramics in the Aegean: The Major Projects	p. 49
3.1 Introduction	p. 49
3.2 Early Byzantine period (ca. 7th-9th centuries)	p. 49
3.3 Middle Byzantine period (ca. 10th-12th/early 13th centuries)	p. 58
3.4 Late Byzantine/Frankish period (ca. 13th-mid 15th centuries)	p. 64
3.5 Turkish period (ca. late 15th-18th centuries)	p. 69
3.6 Early Modern period (ca. 19th-mid 20th centuries)	p. 73
3.7 Summary	p. 76
Part II The Ceramics Found in Boeotia: Typo-Chronological Perspective
4 Boeotia: The Survey Finds in Context	p. 79
4.1 Introduction	p. 79
4.2 Previous research into Post-Roman ceramics in Boeotia	p. 79
4.3 The Boeotia Project: background and methodology	p. 80
4.4 Survey material as a source of information	p. 82
4.5 Summary	p. 86
5 The Boeotia Project: The Pottery in Context	p. 87
5.1 Introduction	p. 87
5.2 The assemblages and their provenances	p. 87
5.3 Summary	p. 132
6 A Presentation of the Diagnostic Ceramics from Boeotia	p. 135
6.1 Introduction	p. 135
6.2 Late Roman--Early Byzantine period	p. 137
6.3 Middle Byzantine period	p. 145
6.4 Late Byzantine/Frankish period	p. 164
6.5 Turkish period	p. 170
6.6 Early Modern period	p. 180
6.7 A proposal for a 'horizontal chronology'	p. 188
6.8 Summary	p. 191
7 Changing Shapes in the Ceramics Found in Boeotia	p. 229
7.1 Introduction	p. 229
7.2 Changing vessel shapes in Boeotia	p. 229
7.3 Changing vessel shapes and vessel functions	p. 237
7.4 Summary	p. 238
Part III The Ceramics Found in Boeotia: The Socio-Economic Perspective
8 The Socio-Economic Background of the Ceramics Found in Boeotia: A Short Introduction	p. 241
8.1 Introduction	p. 241
8.2 The Boeotian infrastructure: settlements and routes	p. 241
8.3 The Boeotian infrastructure: economic activities	p. 251
8.4 Non-commercial ways of distribution: the role of the governing classes	p. 257
8.5 Summary	p. 259
9 Ceramic Production and Distribution in Boeotia: The Local Factor	p. 261
9.1 Introduction	p. 261
9.2 The sources	p. 261
9.3 Ceramic production	p. 263
9.4 Ceramic distribution	p. 273
9.5 Peacock's model of production and distribution	p. 275
9.6 Summary	p. 276
10 The Economics of Ceramics in Boeotia and Beyond	p. 279
10.1 Introduction	p. 279
10.2 Pottery and socio-economic history	p. 279
10.3 Testing Blake's and Orton's theories in Boeotia	p. 284
10.4 Boeotia in a wider economic and geographical perspective	p. 291
10.5 Summary	p. 300
Part IV The Cultural Perspective on Changing Vessel Shapes: A First Survey of the Evidence
11 Dining Habits in Late Roman and Byzantine Times: A Preliminary Survey of the Pictorial Evidence and the Written Sources	p. 303
11.1 Introduction	p. 303
11.2 Problems and possibilities in iconographical interpretation	p. 303
11.3 From Roman banquets to the Last Supper	p. 304
11.4 Last Supper scenes: the history of research	p. 307
11.5 Late Roman--Early Byzantine period	p. 309
11.6 Middle Byzantine period	p. 313
11.7 Late Byzantine/Frankish period	p. 321
11.8 Summary	p. 331
12 Dining Habits in Turkish and Early Modern Times: A Preliminary Survey of the Written Sources and the Pictorial Evidence	p. 335
12.1 Introduction	p. 335
12.2 The written sources on food and dining habits	p. 335
12.3 The pictorial evidence of dining habits	p. 349
12.4 Iznik Ware and Kutahya Ware in the written sources	p. 353
12.5 Summary	p. 356
Part V Conclusion
13 The Ceramics Found in Boeotia: Towards an Integrated Perspective	p. 359
13.1 The state of previous research of Post-Roman ceramics in the Aegean	p. 359
13.2 A classification system for the pottery found in Boeotia	p. 360
13.3 A typo-chronology of the ceramics found in Boeotia	p. 361
13.4 Form and function	p. 363
13.5 Form, function and socio-economic background	p. 364
13.6 Form, function and cultural background	p. 365
Appendices
Appendix A to chapter 2	p. 369
Appendix B to chapters 5 and 6	p. 375
References	p. 379

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