• Byzantine Salento: An Archaeological Guide
    29/01/2025
    The volume Il Salento bizantino. Una guida archeologica (Byzantine Salento. An Archaeological Guide), written by Paul Arthur, Marco Leo Imperiale, and Marisa Tinelli, has been recently published. Through this work, the authors aim to highlight the importance and richness of the Byzantine heritage …
  • An Archaeology of Resilience in Rural Landscapes of Southern Italy, C. 300-1000
    28/01/2025
    The fourth volume of the series of historical-archaeological studies “Themata” has just been published, titled “An Archaeology of Resilience in Rural Landscapes of Southern Italy, c. 300-1000”, written by Matthew J. Munro. This volume emerged from a doctoral thesis questioning the role of …
  • “Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy” Conference
    30/09/2024
    The final conference of the project “Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy“ was held in Lecce from 20 to 22 September 2024. The conference featured a series of sessions dedicated to exploring various aspects of historical and archaeological research on the Byzantine period and its legacy …
  • The final conference of the project ‘Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy’ coming soon
    10/05/2024
    It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the upcoming final conference of our project ‘Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy‘, which will take place in Lecce from 20 to 22 September 2024 at the prestigious Sigismondo Castromediano Museum. Although the programme is still being …
  • 11 May 2024 – Lecture “1071 The fall of the Western Roman Empire”, prof. Paul Arthur
    09/05/2024
    On Saturday 11 May 2024 at 19:00, at the Church of Santa Maria della Grazia in Lecce, Prof.  Paul Arthur will give a lecture entitled ‘1071 The Fall of the Western Roman Empire’. The event is organised by the Vivere Lecce Association, under the patronage of the University of Salento and the Museo …
  • ΡΗΓΙOΝ/RHEGION and its territory in the Byzantine period
    22/04/2024
    “ΡΗΓΙOΝ/RHEGION e il suo territorio in età bizantina” is the third volume fresh from the press in the new series of historical-archaeological studies “Themata”, edited by Adele Coscarella. The volume can be purchased from the EDIPUGLIA website, in paper version or in PDF. INDEX Paul Arthur – …
  • Workshop: Italy & Byzantium. The New Millennium in Pottery Studies
    15/04/2024
    The workshop titled ‘Italy and Byzantium: The New Millennium in Pottery Studies’ will take place at the Royal Netherlands Institute Rome (KNIR) on April 19-21, 2024. For further information and to register for the workshop: …
  • The medieval archaeology team of Unisalento in Hierapolis of Phrygia
    19/10/2023
    The Chair of Medieval Archaeology of the University of Salento, held by Paul Arthur, returned this year to excavate at the site of Hierapolis of Phrygia, Turkey, where it has been working since 1992 as part of the Italian Archaeological Mission, now directed by Grazia Semeraro (Unisalento).At the …
  • SEMINARS OF THE 3RD FLOOR 2023 – Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene
    17/10/2023
    Starting from 2018 the Italian Archaeological School at Athens runs a Seminars programme organized and hosted by the Post Doctoral Fellows of the current year. Topics presented fallwithin the wide-range of the Fellows’ research interests and address in particular the themes of their own projects. …
  • International workshop “Agrarian changes and rural settlement pattern in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Western Mediterranean”
    20/05/2023
    International workshop: “Agrarian changes and rural settlement patterns in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Western Mediterranean,” organized by Angelo Castrorao Barba, and funded by Gerda Henkel Foundation, DFG and MSCA COFUND PASIFIC. The event will be held on May 25 and 26, 2023 …

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