109 Pickard Hall Columbia, Missouri 65211-1420   phone: 573-882-6711   fax: 573-884-5269   email: aha@missouri.edu

Marcus Rautman

Professor and Department Chair
Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology
Ph.D., Indiana University

mailing address:
Department of Art History and Archaeology
109 Pickard Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1420

phone: 573-882-6711
fax: 573-884-5269
email:RautmanM at missouri dot edu

Teaching

• AHA 3510 Early Christian and Byzantine Art and Archaeology
• AHA 3520: Early Medieval Art and Archaeology
• AHA 4490/7490 Late Antique Art and Archaeology
• AHA 4510/7510: Byzantine Art and Archaeology
• AHA 8420 Seminar in Roman Archaeology
• AHA 8440 Seminar in Ancient/Medieval Topography

Research

The interplay of society and visual culture underlies my study of the early Middle Ages, especially during periods of political transition. The dynamics of cultural adaptation are of particular interest in understanding the east Mediterranean region on both urban and rural scales. Later Byzantine Macedonia presents one such artistic environment that survives in churches, monumental decoration, and manuscripts. Contemporary documents allow us to explore the role played by individual patrons and social groups in sponsoring an architectural revival in Thessaloniki (see below) in the early 14th century. Located in western Asia Minor, Lydian Sardis (see below) offers a contrasting view of urban life in late antiquity. Recent excavations by the Harvard-Cornell expedition include a residential quarter, whose remains preserve the evolution of local lifeways down to the early 7th century. Farther removed from the late Roman mainstream is Cyprus, where excavations at the village site of Kalavasos-Kopetra (see below) have revealed a poorly understood level of settled life during the 6th and 7th centuries. Laboratory analysis (see below) of ceramics used at these places provides special insight into the character of local routines and the interconnections of their residents. In all these research settings I have tried to combine disciplinary methods—history, archaeology, and art history—to provide a fuller background for understanding the monuments and peoples of the past.

Thessaloniki

The capital of Macedonia and second largest city of the empire, Thessaloniki occupies an important place in the history of late Byzantine architecture.

Selected Articles

• Notes on the metropolitan succession of Thessaloniki, ca. 1300, Revue des études byzantines 46 (1988) 147-159.
• Patrons and buildings in late Byzantine Thessaloniki, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 39 (1989) 295-315.
• Observations on the Byzantine palaces of Thessaloniki, Byzantion 60 (1990) 292-306.
• Ignatius of Smolensk and the late Byzantine monasteries of Thessaloniki, Revue des études byzantines 49 (1991) 143-169.
• Aspects of monastic patronage in Palaeologan Macedonia, The Twilight of Byzantium, eds. S. Curcic and D. Mouriki (Princeton University Press, 1991) 53-74.

Sardis

Located about 90 km from the Aegean coast, Sardis was one of the great cities of Roman Asia.

Recent Articles

• Two late Roman wells at Sardis, Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 53 (1995) 37-84.
• A late Roman townhouse at Sardis, Forschungen in Lydien, Asia Minor Studien 17 (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 1995) 49-66.
• co-author with C. H. Greenewalt, Jr. and C. Ratté, The Sardis campaigns of 1992 and 1993, Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 53 (1995) 1-36.
• co-author with C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., The Sardis campaigns of 1994 and 1995, American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 469-505.
• co-author with C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., The Sardis campaigns of 1996-1998, American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000) 643-81.

Kalavasos-Kopetra

The early Byzantine village at Kalavasos-Kopetra was established near the south coast of central Cyprus, where it flourished in the 6th and early 7th centuries

Recent Articles

• co-author with M. C. McClellan, Excavations at late Roman Kopetra, Cyprus, Journal of Roman Archaeology 5 (1992) 265-271
• co-author with M. C. McClellan, The 1991-1993 field seasons at Kalavasos-Kopetra, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1994, 289-307
• Handmade pottery and social change: The view from late Roman Cyprus, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12 (1998) 81-104
• The busy countryside of late Roman Cyprus, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2000
• Rural society and economy in late Roman Cyprus, in Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity, eds. J. W. Eadie and T. S. Burns (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001) 241-62
• The context of rural innovation: An early monastery at Kalavasos-Sirmata, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2001, 307-18
• Valley and village in late Roman Cyprus, in Recent Research on the Late Antique Countryside, eds. W. Bowden, L. Lavan, and C. Machado (Leiden: Brill 2004) 189-218
• The villages of Byzantine Cyprus, in Les villages dans l’empire byzantin, eds. J. Lefort, C. Morrisson, and J.-P. Sodini, Paris: P. Lethielleux
• A Cypriot Village of Late Antiquity. Kalavasos-Kopetra in the Vasilikos Valley, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 52, 2003

Ceramic Analysis

Compositional analysis of pottery, rooftiles, and other archaeological ceramics at the Missouri University Research Reactor provides a closer look at the material resources and cultural environment of the past.

Recent articles

• co-author with B. Gomez, H. Neff, and M. D. Glascock, Neutron activation analysis of late Roman ceramics from Kalavasos-Kopetra and the environs of the Vasilikos valley, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1993, 233-264.
• Neutron activation analysis of Cypriot and related ceramics at the University of Missouri, in Hellenistic and Roman Pottery in the Eastern Mediterranean. Advances in Scientific Studies (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, 1995) 331-49.
• co-author with B. Gomez, H. Neff, and M. D. Glascock, Clays related to the production of White Slip Ware, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1995, 113-18.
• co-author with B. Gomez, H. Heff, and M. D. Glascock, Clays used in the manufacture of Cypriot Red Slip Pottery and related ceramics, Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1996, 69-82.
• co-author with H. Neff, B. Gomez, S. Vaughan, and M. D. Glascock, Amphoras and rooftiles from late Roman Cyprus: A compositional study of calcareous fabric ceramics from Kalavasos-Kopetra, Journal of Roman Archaeology 12 (1999) 377-91.
• co-author with B. Gomez, H. Neff, S. Vaughan, and M. D. Glascock, Source provenance of Bronze Age and Roman pottery from Cyprus, Archaeometry 44 (2002) 23-36.
• co-author with H. Neff, Compositional analysis of ceramics from Maroni-Petrera, in S. W. Manning et al., The Late Roman Church at Maroni-Petrera (Nicosia: Leventis Foundation, 2002) 55-57.

Thessaloniki

Sardis

Kalavasos-Kopetra

A Cypriot Village of Late Antiquity. Kalavasos-Kopetra in the Vasilikos Valley
2003