![]() These buildings were thought to be some of the earliest examples of structures with terracotta tiled roofs in the region. ![]() "Architectural Innovation and Metallurgy in Early Etruria: Evidence from Poggio Civitate"Ībstract : The site of Poggio Civitate preserves some of the earliest known examples of monumental domestic and industrial architecture in peninsular Italy in the second half of the seventh century BCE, inhabitants of Poggio Civitate constructed a monumental elite residence, an early temple, and a large industrial workshop, all of which were covered with terracotta tiled roofs. The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria, New York, 2016 (Numismatic studies no.34). The analysis of their spatial and temporal evolution, compared with written and archaeological sources tells a lot about centers of power, places, and practices of commerce, historical occurrences, such as wars, which influence monetary production, and the habits of users.ĭuyrat 2016 : Frédérique Duyrat, Wealth and Warfare. This lecture will focus on coin hoards in the Eastern part of the Greek world, from Greece to Iran, during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. For historians, they bring important data on wealth but also on the communities that created these coins and used them. They carry images of limitless wealth, gold, and good fortune. How to study a Greek Coin Hoard”Ĭoin hoards are deeply embedded in the human imagination. Marina Rustow, Princeton University, author of The Lost Archive: Traces of the Caliphate in a Medieval Synagogue (2020)ĭaniel Wakelin, University of Oxford, author of Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England: Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500 (2022)Īrchaeological Institute of America - Charlottesville Chapter lectureįrédérique Duyrat, Director of the département des monnaies, médailles et antiques of the Bibliothèque nationale de France Lydia Barnett, Northwestern University, author of After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe (2022)Īdam Goldwyn, North Dakota State University, author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Humans, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (2018) Meeting 3 - Premodern Ecologies and Environments pdfs of scholarship will be made available to colloquium participants upon request. Participants are encouraged to have read their books in advance and will be invited to attend a casual pre-discussion of these works prior to the colloquium. Rather than delivering formal talks, speakers will initiate a dialogue that places their related works in conversation. Each colloquium brings together two scholars whose recent work engages with similar themes from different cultural and temporal eras. To launch the new graduate certificate in Premodern Cultures & Communities, a five-part colloquium series will take place over Spring – Fall 2023.
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