“Going to the extremes”: the Balearics and Cyprus in the early medieval Byzantine insular system

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buir.contributor.authorZavagno, Luca
dc.citation.epage157en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber2en_US
dc.citation.spage140en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber31en_US
dc.contributor.authorZavagno, Lucaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-13T12:27:47Z
dc.date.available2020-02-13T12:27:47Z
dc.date.issued2019-04
dc.departmentDepartment of Historyen_US
dc.description.abstractThis contribution mainly focuses on Cyprus and the Balearics, islands located at opposite geographical extremes of the Byzantine Mediterranean, during the passage from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Historians have often regarded these islands as peripheral additions to the Byzantine heartland of the Aegean and the Anatolian plateau; this article argues that, in fact, archaeological and material indicators (such as ceramics, lead seals and coins), paired with the scarce textual sources, point to a certain degree of economic prosperity in the abovementioned islands during the period under scrutiny, suggesting that they continued to play an important role in the political, administrative and religious structures of the Byzantine Empire. A resilient insular economy and continuity of local production of artefacts was ensured by the persistence of demand from local secular and religious elites and regular, if infrequent, contacts with other areas of the Byzantine heartland or the Muslim Mediterranean.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09503110.2019.1602375en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1473-348X
dc.identifier.issn0950-3110
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/53338
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2019.1602375en_US
dc.source.titleAl-Masaq - Journal of the Medieval Mediterraneanen_US
dc.subjectCyprusen_US
dc.subjectBalearicsen_US
dc.subjectFrontieren_US
dc.subjectIslandsen_US
dc.subjectMallorcaen_US
dc.subjectByzantiumen_US
dc.title“Going to the extremes”: the Balearics and Cyprus in the early medieval Byzantine insular systemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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