Encounters, Excavations and Argosies

John Moreland took his first Archaeology tutorial with Richard Hodges at the University of Sheffield in 1977. Richard also supervised his PhD, and they worked closely together on excavations at Roystone Grange (Derbyshire), San Vincenzo al Volturno (Italy), and Butrint (Albania). He is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. John Mitchell first met Richard Hodges at Castel San Vincenzo in 1981, a jobbing art-historian dropping by to assess some excavated fresco-fragments, was hooked and has been working with him ever since, in Molise, southern Albania and more recently in Tuscany. He is Professor in the History of Art (emeritus) at the University of East Anglia. Bea Leal studied metalwork at Camberwell Art College and history of art at the University of East Anglia, finishing her PhD there (on Images of Architecture in Late Antiquity) in 2016. Her interests are in the art and architecture of the late antique and early medieval Mediterranean, and especially the early Islamic period.

• Introduction (John Mitchell and John Moreland); Richard Hodges (Mother Miriam Benedict); Richard a San Vincenzo al Volturno, il 23 settembre 1985* (Franco Valente); An ode to New Light on Early Medieval Monasticism (Neil Christie); Looking beyond the local: Richard Hodges’ extraordinary journey from Box to Butrint (Jim Symonds); Cutting history in slices. Periodization and the Middle Ages: an archaeological perspective (Andrea Augenti); Stone Age Economics: a new audit (Graeme Barker); Richard Hodges and Tuscany: from the pioneering excavations of the 80s to the ERC-Advanced nEU-Med Project (Giovanna Bianchi); From villa to minster at Southwell (Will Bowden); Islamization and trade in the Arabian Gulf in the age of Mohammad and Charlemagne (Jose C. Carvajal López); Remembering the early Christian baptistery, the Venetian castle and Art-Deco Saranda: a personal view of the future of heritage and development in Saranda and Butrint (Prue Chiles); The popes and their town in the time of Charlemagne (Paolo Delogu); The rebirth of towns in the Beneventan principality (8th-9th centuries) (Alessandro Di Muro); The monastery of Anselm and Peter. The origins of Nonantola between Lombards and Carolingians (Sauro Gelichi); Farfa revisited: the early medieval monastery church (Sheila Gibson, Oliver J. Gilkes and John Mitchell); Butrint’s death and resurrection: the medieval lime-kiln in the Roman forum (David Hernandez); ʿAnjar: An Umayyad image of urbanism and its afterlife (Bea Leal); Lively columns and living stones - the origins of the Constantinian church basilica (John Mitchell); The survival and revival of urban settlements in the southern Adriatic: Aulon and Kanina in the early to late Middle Ages (Nevila Molla); Powerful matter – agency and materiality in the early Middle Ages (John Moreland); We do it indoors and sitting down, but still call it archaeology – unravelling and recording blocklifted hoards (Pippa Pearce); Albanian Archaeology in the New Millennium and The British Contribution (Luan Përzhita); ‘Moi Auguste’ – Les images de l’empereur Auguste dans les collections des musées albanais (Iris Pojani); Butrint in the late 6th to 7th centuries: contexts, sequences and ceramics (Paul Reynolds); Athens, Charlemagne and Small Change (Alessia Rovelli); From villa to village. Late Roman to early medieval settlement networks in the ager Rusellanus (Alessandro Sebastiani); Scandinavian monetisation in the first millennium AD – practices and institutions (Dagfinn Skre); Philosophiana in central Sicily in the late Roman and Byzantine periods: settlement and economy (Emanuele Vaccaro); Appunti, grezzi, per un’agenda di Archeologia Pubblica in Italia (Marco Valenti); Leiderdorp: a Frisian settlement in the shadow of Dorestad (Arno A. A. Verhoeven and Menno F. P. Dijkstra); Saranda in the waves of time: some early medieval pottery finds from a port in the Byzantine Empire (Joanita Vroom); Richard Hodges and the British School at Rome (BSR) (Christopher Smith); Richard Hodges: an intellectual appreciation (Chris Wickham)