The Late Antique Countryside: an introduction -- Archaeological research on the Late Antique Countryside: a bibliographic essay -- Rehabilitating the Great Estate: aristocratic property and economic growth in the Late Antique East -- Epigraphic data on village culture and social instutitions: an interregional comparison (Syria, Phoenice Libanensis and Arabia) -- The fate of rural temples in Late Antiquity and the Christianisation of the countryside -- The archaeology of pilgrimage in Late Antique Albania: The Basilica of the Forty Martyrs -- Valley and village in Late Roman Cyprus -- Settlement expansion on the Konya Plain, Anatolia: 5th-7th centuries, A.D. -- Late Antiquity in the territory of Sagalassos -- Late Antique pottery, settlement and trade in the East Mediterranean: a preliminary comparison of ceramics from Limyra (Lycia) and Boeotia -- Residential villas in Late Antique Italy: continuity and change -- Late Roman villa plans: the Danube-Balkan Region -- Monastic landscapes -- Monasteries as rural settlements: patron-dependence of self-sufficiency? -- A de-Romanised landscape in Northern Gaul: the Scarpe Valley from the 4th to 9th century A.D. -- Late Antique settlement on the Plain of Verona -- Continuity and change in the Macedonian countryside, from Gallienus to Justinian.