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Pottery Traditions "Beyond" Byzantium. Production and Supply in Rural and Urban Contexts within the Frankish Duchy of Athens and Thebes

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After the Fourth Crusade, the formerly Byzantine Aegean transformed into a mosaic of Frankish feudal territories and Venetian colonies. With these political changes came new trends in aesthetic tastes, demands in goods and commodities, and foodways in various parts of Greece, particularly in urban centers of trade, culture, and administration. The conquest of Thebes by the Franks brought changes in the city's economic and commercial activities and intensified its commercial interactions with Venice. Correspondingly, our previous research has identified some Frankish and Venetian influences in the production of cookingwares and tablewares in the plain of Thebes during the 14 th century. Nonetheless, the exact extent of these Latin influences in pottery traditions of central Greece remains to be clarified through comparisons with other assemblages. We compare our finds obtained from 60 pottery fragments at Thebes with those from 70 sherds collected during archaeological survey in the Mazi plain, a rural habitation located between the two major Frankish centers of Athens and Thebes. The focus is on cookingwares and glazed tablewares dated from the 12 th to the 14 th centuries. Through a combined stylistic, petrographic, and physico-chemical analysis of the pottery and comparisons with local sediments, we identify raw material exploitation strategies, we suggest possible locations for pottery workshops in Attica and Boeotia, and we characterize pottery production outputs in rural and in urban environments. We compare strategies of pottery supply at Thebes and at Mazi; we assess the connection of each site to local, regional, as well as wider trade networks. This research provides new perspectives on the way in which geography and politics impacted the commodity circulation beyond urban centers in Frankish Greece. Correlatively, it informs on patterns of transformations in pottery craftmanship, consumption traditions, and lifestyles in a formerly Byzantine Greek city and in its hinterland.
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hal-01985771 , version 1 (18-01-2019)

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Florence Liard. Pottery Traditions "Beyond" Byzantium. Production and Supply in Rural and Urban Contexts within the Frankish Duchy of Athens and Thebes. International Medieval Congress, Jul 2018, Leeds, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-01985771⟩
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