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The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking: Butrint and the Global Heritage Industry
Dr Richard Hodges
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Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages, 50 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 399.
Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume series of accompanying scientific publications have made this a key site for our developing understanding of the Roman and Medieval Mediterranean. Through this set of interwoven reflections about the archaeology and cultural heritage history of his twenty-year odyssey in south-west Albania, Richard Hodges considers how the Butrint Foundation protected and enhanced Butrint’s spirit of place for future generations. Hodges reviews Virgil’s long influence on Butrint and how its topographic archaeology has now helped to ... Read more
Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume series of accompanying scientific publications have made this a key site for our developing understanding of the Roman and Medieval Mediterranean. Through this set of interwoven reflections about the archaeology and cultural heritage history of his twenty-year odyssey in south-west Albania, Richard Hodges considers how the Butrint Foundation protected and enhanced Butrint’s spirit of place for future generations. Hodges reviews Virgil’s long influence on Butrint and how its topographic archaeology has now helped to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350006621
SKU
V9781350006621
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About Dr Richard Hodges
Richard Hodges OBE, is President of The American University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury. He has previously been Director of ... Read more
Reviews for The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking: Butrint and the Global Heritage Industry
No one is better positioned to recount the archaeological history of Butrint than Richard Hodges … Hodges is a clear and engaging writer whose personalized account make this book hard to put down … Though not strictly writing a guidebook, Hodges has produced an important and, at times, controversial introduction to the site of Butrint that grapples with many of ... Read more