Project
Abstract
The transformation of natural space into a socially constructed landscape is a complex phenomenon of crucial interest not only for historical but also for environmental and social studies. This research aims to contribute to our understanding of diverse constructive mechanisms of the human presence into medieval natural environments by means of a comparative study of such mechanisms in Byzantine Southern Balkans and Asia Minor during the 6th-13th centuries. Due to the complexity of this social issue, an interdisciplinary methodological approach drawn from a post-modern and new-positivist (contextual-focused) theoretical background has been selected.
