The ‘Byzantine Heritage of Southern Italy’ project aims to be an archaeological exploration of some 500 years of Byzantine domination of Italy, when a substantial part of its power lay in a large interconnected, yet spatially fluctuating, block of territory that included Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia. This includes settlement patterns and connectivity, language and religion, food and society, and, perhaps we might add, mentality. Nonetheless, this large territory was constantly changing in volume and boundaries and in social composition through politics and mobility.

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