The Byzantine Dark Ages

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nIntroduction: Dark Ages\n	Transformation vs. decline\n	Whose Byzantium?\n1 Historical Overview\n	Research on Dark Age Byzantium\n	Transformation and decline\n2 Material Evidence and Meaning\n	Ceramics: overview\n	The great transition: the red ware traditionand its end\n	Glazed pottery\n	Coins\n	Glass\n	Metalwork\n	Other categories of material evidence: stone, bone, and other materials\n3 Cities\n	Balkan urbanism: the cases of Nicopolis, Butrint, and Corinth\n	Anatolian urbanism: Amorium and Hierapolis\n4 The Dark Age Countryside\n	Settlement in Dark Age Byzantium: debating the meaning of the evidence\n	No people or no perception? Field survey and the construction of the Dark Age countryside: potentials and problems\n5 The Dark Age Economy\n	Coins and the Dark Age economy\n	Off the record: ephemeral and hard-to-track goods\n	The proof is in the potting: ceramic production and regional patterns of exchange\n	Saints and seafarers: Dark Age trade\n6 New Directions\nBibliography\nIndex