The Iberian Peninsula Between 300 and 850 ─ An Archaeological Perspective

The vast transformation of the Roman world at the end of antiquity has been a subject of broad scholarly interest for decades, but until now no book has focused specifically on the Iberian Peninsula in the period as seen through an archaeological lens. Given the sparse documentary evidence available, archaeology holds the key to a richer understanding of the developments of the period, and this book addresses a number of issues that arise from analysis of the available material culture, including questions of the process of Christianization and Islamization, continuity and abandonment of Roman urban patterns and forms, the end of villas and the growth of villages, and the adaptation of the population and the elites to the changing political circumstances.

Javier Martinez Jimenez is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. Isaac Sastre de Diego is a researcher within the CUPARQ Research Group in Merida. Carlos Terejizo is a postdoctoral scholar at the Instituto de Ciencias del Patriminio and a visiting fellow at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
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