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Winner of ASOR's 2022 G. Ernest Wright Award for the most
substantial volume dealing with archaeological material, excavation
reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and Eastern
Mediterranean. This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the
most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a
crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the Seleucids,
through Roman rule, the rise of Christianity, Islamic and Byzantine
conquests, to the Crusades and beyond. Antioch has typically been
treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a
series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and
seventh centuries CE. Such studies have obstructed the view of
Antioch's fascinating urban transformations from classical to
medieval to modern city and the processes behind these
transformations. Through its comprehensive blend of textual sources
and new archaeological data reanalyzed from Princeton's 1930s
excavations and recent discoveries, this book offers unprecedented
insights into the complete history of Antioch, recreating the lives
of the people who lived in it and focusing on the factors that
affected them during the evolution of its remarkable cityscape.
While Antioch's built environment is central, the book also
utilizes landscape archaeological work to consider the city in
relation to its hinterland, and numismatic evidence to explore its
economics. The outmoded portrait of Antioch as a sadly perished
classical city par excellence gives way to one in which it shines
as brightly in its medieval Islamic, Byzantine, and Crusader
incarnations. Antioch: A History offers a new portal to researching
this long-lasting city and is also suitable for a wide variety of
teaching needs, both undergraduate and graduate, in the fields of
classics, history, urban studies, archaeology, Silk Road studies,
and Near Eastern/Middle Eastern studies. Just as importantly, its
clarity makes it attractive for, and accessible to, a general
readership outside the framework of formal instruction.
Winner of ASOR's 2022 G. Ernest Wright Award for the most
substantial volume dealing with archaeological material, excavation
reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and Eastern
Mediterranean. This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the
most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a
crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the Seleucids,
through Roman rule, the rise of Christianity, Islamic and Byzantine
conquests, to the Crusades and beyond. Antioch has typically been
treated as a city whose classical glory faded permanently amid a
series of natural disasters and foreign invasions in the sixth and
seventh centuries CE. Such studies have obstructed the view of
Antioch's fascinating urban transformations from classical to
medieval to modern city and the processes behind these
transformations. Through its comprehensive blend of textual sources
and new archaeological data reanalyzed from Princeton's 1930s
excavations and recent discoveries, this book offers unprecedented
insights into the complete history of Antioch, recreating the lives
of the people who lived in it and focusing on the factors that
affected them during the evolution of its remarkable cityscape.
While Antioch's built environment is central, the book also
utilizes landscape archaeological work to consider the city in
relation to its hinterland, and numismatic evidence to explore its
economics. The outmoded portrait of Antioch as a sadly perished
classical city par excellence gives way to one in which it shines
as brightly in its medieval Islamic, Byzantine, and Crusader
incarnations. Antioch: A History offers a new portal to researching
this long-lasting city and is also suitable for a wide variety of
teaching needs, both undergraduate and graduate, in the fields of
classics, history, urban studies, archaeology, Silk Road studies,
and Near Eastern/Middle Eastern studies. Just as importantly, its
clarity makes it attractive for, and accessible to, a general
readership outside the framework of formal instruction.
The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in
advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that has resounded
emphatically in the works of both Islamic and Christian writers,
and created an enduring motif: that of the Islamic-Byzantine
frontier. For centuries, Byzantine and Islamic scholars have
evocatively sketched a contested border: the annual raids between
the two, the line of fortified fortresses defending Islamic lands,
the no-man's land in between and the birth of jihad. In their early
representations of a Muslim-Christian encounter, accounts of the
Islamic-Byzantine frontier are charged with significance for a
future 'clash of civilizations' that often envisions a polarised
world. A. Asa Eger examines the two aspects of this frontier: its
physical and ideological ones. By highlighting the archaeological
study of the real and material frontier, as well as acknowledging
its ideological military and religious implications, he offers a
more complex vision of this dividing line than has been
traditionally disseminated. With analysis grounded in
archaeological evidence as well the relevant historical texts, Eger
brings together a nuanced exploration of this vital element of
medieval history.
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