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Stéphane de Byzance
Les Ethniques comme source historique: l’exemple de l’Europe occidentale
Le lexique géographique du grammairien byzantin Stéphane de Byzance les Ethniques est une œuvre à l’origine monumentale. Ce lexique contenait de nombreuses mentions d’auteurs disparus se rapportant à des toponymes du monde antique connu des Grecs et des Romains. À l’intérieur de ce lexique nous avons choisi d’étudier plus spécialement ceux situés en Europe occidentale (péninsule ibérique Gaule Germanie et Bretagne antiques) en lien avec les sites archéologiques connus s’y rapportant. L’ouvrage ayant été abrégé à plusieurs reprises au cours du Moyen Âge la confrontation de l’ensemble des notices a permis de proposer de nouvelles attributions d’auteurs antiques leur nom et leur citation ayant très souvent disparu des manuscrits conservés. Par ailleurs l’analyse précise de la transmission de l’œuvre apporte un éclairage nouveau sur les moments où ce grammairien a été lu et utilisé du VIe s. jusqu’à sa redécouverte à la fin du XVe s. La structure même du lexique permet de revenir sur la lexicographie antique et médiévale et d’envisager les apports à la fois des grammairiens et des auteurs antiques (pour la plupart géographes et historiens) qui étaient cités. Enfin le cadre géographique choisi permet d’explorer les autres textes antiques ainsi que les données archéologiques depuis l’époque grecque archaïque jusqu’à la fin de l’Empire romain. Nous avons inclus dans ce travail une analyse et une traduction de l’Ora maritima d’Aviénus afin de compléter l’étude de la péninsule ibérique et du Midi de la Gaule.
Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria
Research and Field Papers
This volume the first in a new series dedicated to the archaeological and historical landscapes of central Mediterranean Italy aims to offer a fresh and dynamic new approach to our understanding of central-southern maritime Tuscany during the Roman period. Drawing on research that was initially presented at the first International Mediterranean Tuscan Conference (MediTo) held in Paganico (Grosseto Italy) in June 2018 and supported by invited papers from other experts in the field this collection of essays offers the most up-to-date research into Roman and Late Antique landscapes within Tuscany and its broader Mediterranean context as well as the political economic and social networks that developed in this area during the Classical Period. Ultimately what emerges from this in-depth study of river valleys urban centres and coastal settlements is an understanding of a dynamic Roman territory of cities and villages villas and sanctuaries minor sites and manufacturing districts in which the local population fought to establish and maintain connections with the wider Mediterranean.
Landscapes or seascapes?
The history of the coastal environment in the North Sea area reconsidered
This volume deals with the geographical evolution of the coastal areas adjacent to the North Sea with a focus upon the last two thousand years. Although many articles are reworked in a fundamental way most of them are the result of a conference which took place in 2010 at Ghent University (Belgium) and which was actually the third in a series of symposiums on the same broad theme. The first took place in 1958 and the second in 1978. Recognized specialists were invited to present their research in a variety of fields relating to the subject. The various disciplines in which the coastal plains are studied too often remain within their own borders and so we have set out to thoroughly interweave them in the hope that this will spur greater interdisciplinary cooperation. This collection of texts is intended to appeal not just to experts in historical geography but to historians and scientists working in any field who wish to gain insights into the present ‘state of play’.
Detailed geological research about many areas provided new data and researchers gradually gained a better understanding of the close relationship between the processes of deposition sea-level change and land formation taking place across multiple regions. In the same time historical and archaeological research also evolved. Most significantly ideas regarding the chronology of human occupation have changed a lot. This scope of the research collected in this volume is important because it has increasingly become evident that land loss and gain were the results of regional factors including and especially human activities. Moreover it is now clear that humans devised survival strategies and thus organized their activities in relation to the environment on a regional basis which means that the causes of local changes must have been both natural and socio-historical. It has now become clearer than ever that there is no single chronological scheme capable of explaining the coastal evolution across the entirety of the North Sea area.
Erik Thoen is professor in rural history and environmental history at Ghent University (B) and co-ordinator of the CORN network.
Guus J. Borger is emeritus professor in historical geography at the University of Amsterdam and the VU University Amsterdam (NL).
Adriaan M.J. de Kraker is senior researcher in historical geography at the VU University Amsterdam (NL).
Tim Soens is professor in rural history and environmental history at the University of Antwerp (B).
Dries Tys is professor at the Brussels Free University (VUB) (B).
Lies Vervaet is assistant specialised in rural history at Ghent University (B).
Henk J.T. Weerts is senior researcher paleogeography at the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.