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Butrint

Never a ‘non-place’

Richard Hodges    American University of Rome, Italia    

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abstract

This short essay takes its direction from Marc Auge’s definitions of places and non-places. It reviews the settlement shifts at Butrint, ancient Buthrotum, between late antiquity and the 12th century. Butrint had been a place since the late Republic, if not earlier; a centre associated with mythic origins and healing. Located in at least three different places, Butrint after antiquity took three different physical forms, but appears to have sustained its association with a mythic past. Remaining not only a trading centre of varying importance, did the memory of its antiquity safeguard its continuity albeit in very different locations and settlement forms?

Pubblicato
12 Luglio 2017
Accettato
17 Settembre 2016
Presentato
25 Agosto 2016
Lingua
IT
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-114-0
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-115-7

Keywords: Middle AgesAdriaticByzantine

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