Researcher: Kontogiannis, Nikolaos
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Publication Metadata only Ottoman Athens: topography, archaeology, history(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2021) N/A; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kontogiannis, Nikolaos; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 258781N/APublication Metadata only A tale of two cities: Thebes and Chalcis in a world of change (ninth to fifteenth centuries)(Taylor and Francis, 2021) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kontogiannis, Nikolaos; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 258781Central Greece during the Byzantine era has often been summarily and perhaps simplistically considered by earlier historians as a primarily agrarian backwater, coming to forefront only. Chalcis gradually came under Venetian rule, and served as an international maritime colony. These divergent political conditions also gradually influenced the civic conditions and the urban fabric of both cities. Between the ninth and the twelfth centuries, the “special bond” between two cities was achieved through a matrix of economic, social, and political features, which can be traced down to the level of urban neighbourhoods. In both cities, similar patterns emerge on the basis of material culture and the concentration of activities. The establishment and continuous use of Byzantine neighbourhoods despite the deficiencies in our knowledge of their boundaries, organization, and exact size seem to represent a conscious choice on the part of the inhabitants. Defensive walls played a primary role, defining the walled area as primary and that outside the walls as secondary.Publication Metadata only The tower of the winds in Athens: Greeks, Romans, and Muslims; two millennia of continual use(Univ Chicago Press, 2019) Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kontogiannis, Nikolaos; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 258781Publication Metadata only Investigating the origins of two main types of middle and late Byzantine amphorae(Elsevier, 2018) Waksman, Sylvie Yona; Skartsis, Stefania S.; Kontogiannis, Nikos D.; Todorova, Evelina P.; Vaxevanis, Giannis; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kontogiannis, Nikolaos; Faculty Member; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 258781Unlike Late Roman/Early Byzantine amphorae, Middle and Late Byzantine amphorae have been little studied and their origins and contents are still largely unknown. Out of the four main types distinguished by Gunsenin, two were investigated in the present research: types Gunsenin II (10th-11th century AD) and Gunsenin III (12th-13th century AD). Samples taken from various excavations and find spots in central Greece, located in Thebes, Chalcis, and the countryside of Euboea were investigated for their provenance by chemical analysis. Thanks to previously established reference groups, samples of amphorae Gunsenin III, of part of amphorae Gunsenin II and of transitional types could be attributed to Chalcis, whose harbor played a major role in the Aegean at the medieval period.Publication Open Access Reading social change on a potter's wheel: Chalcis (Euboea) from the Byzantine to the Modern Greek era(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021) Skartsis, Stefania S.; Department of Archeology and History of Art; Kontogiannis, Nikolaos; Department of Archeology and History of Art; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 258781In this article, the socio-economic and cultural identity of Chalcis is traced through, and combined with, the story of its material culture and, in particular, of its impressive pottery production and consumption. Through this lens, the historical conditions and daily life over more than ten centuries (from the ninth to the early twentieth century) of this relatively unknown provincial town are closely examined. This makes it possible to detect one field in which local communities reacted to, adjusted to, took advantage of, survived or sometimes succumbed to the wider turmoil of the Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek eras.