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    The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology

    The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology by Pettegrew, David K.; Caraher, William R.; Davis, Thomas W.;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 21 February 2019

    • ISBN 9780199369041
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages728 pages
    • Size 183x249x33 mm
    • Weight 1225 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 250 illus.
    • 210

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    Short description:

    This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research.

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    The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in archaeological method, theory, and research. The essays emphasize the link between archaeological fieldwork, methods, and regional and national traditions in constructing our knowledge of the Early Church and Christian communities within the context of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe.

    Three sweeping introductory essays provide historical perspectives on the archaeology of the Early Christian world. These are followed by a series of topical treatments that focus on monuments and environments ranging from Christian churches to catacombs, martyria, and baths, as well as classes of objects of religious significance such as ceramics, lamps, and icons. Finally, the volume locates the archaeology of the Early Christian world in fifteen regional studies stretching from Britain to Persia, highlighting the unique historical contexts that have shaped scholarly discussion across time and space. The thorough, carefully-researched essays offer the most intensive, state-of-the-art treatment of recent research into the archaeology of Early Christianity available.

    Oxford remains at the vanguard of well-researched topical summaries. Pettegrew, Caraher, and Davis are to be commended for offering an impressive range of interdisciplinary voices and expanding both the thematic and geographical horizons of archaeological investigations into Christian origins.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. The Archaeology of Early Christianity: The History, Methods, and State of a Field
    William R. Caraher and David K. Pettegrew
    PART I. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY
    2. Archaeology of the Gospels
    James F. Strange
    3. New Testament Archaeology beyond the Gospels
    Thomas W. Davis
    PART II. SACRED SPACE AND MORTUARY CONTEXTS
    4. The Catacombs
    Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai
    5. Martyria
    David L. Eastman
    6. Burials and Human Remains in Early Christian Context
    Sherry C. Fox and Paraskevi Tritsaroli
    7. Churches
    Charles Stewart
    8. The Archaeology of Early Monastic Communities
    Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
    9. Baptisteries in Ancient Sites and Rites
    H. Richard Rutherford
    10. Baths, Christianity, and Bathing Culture in Late Antiquity
    Dallas DeForest
    PART III. ART AND ARTIFACTS IN CONTEXT
    11. The Art of the Catacombs
    Fabrizio Bisconti
    12. Visual Rhetoric of Early Christian Reliquaries
    Galit Noga-Banai
    13. An Anarchéologie of Icons
    Gleen Peers
    14. Spolia, its Viewers, and the 'Victory of Christianity'
    Jon Michael Frey
    15. Early Christian Mosaics in Context
    Karen C. Britt
    16. Pottery
    R. Scott Moore
    17. Lamps
    Maria Parani
    18. Statues
    Troels Myrup Kristensen
    19. Amulets and the Ritual Efficacy of Christian Symbols
    Rangar H. Cline
    PART IV. CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY IN REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE
    20. Christian Archaeology in Palestine: the Roman and Byzantine Periods
    Joan E. Taylor
    21. Jordan
    Robert Schick
    22. Syria
    Emma Loosley
    23. The Church of the East until the 8th century
    Stefan R. Hauser
    24. Armenia
    Christina Maranci
    25. The Holy Island: An Archaeology of Early Christian Cyprus
    Jody Michael Gordon and William R. Caraher
    26. Asia Minor
    Peter Talloen
    27. Community, Church and Conversion in the prefecture of Illyricum and the Cyclades
    Rebecca Sweetman
    28. The Early Christian Archaeology of the Balkans
    William Bowden
    29. The Archaeology of Early Italian Churches in Context, AD 313-569
    Alexandra Chavarría
    30. The Christianization of Gaul: Buildings and Territories
    Bastien Lefebvre
    31. Britain and Ireland, AD 100-700
    David Petts
    32. Constructing Christian Landscapes in the Iberian Peninsula: The Archaeological Evidence (4th-6th centuries)
    Alexandra Chavarría
    33. Incorporating Christian communities in North Africa. Churches as bodies of communal history
    Susan T. Stevens
    34. Archaeology of Early Christianity in Egypt
    Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
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