The Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría: Balkan and Aegean Linguistic Influences - Hardcover

by Francesco Lopez (Author)

This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the land of the Bruttii, now the region of Calabria. This work is the first to carefully evaluate linguistic and historical studies in a comprehensive and monographic form. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the systematic combination of Linguistics and Landscape History guides the research step by step. The sample represents a new significant methodological instance that merges Toponymy, History, Archaeology, Topography, and Philology.

Author Biography

Francesco Lopez (1970), University of Pisa (Italy), is a Ph.D. of History of Science at that university (2014) and a specialist in Linguistics and Classical Philology. He has published monographs and many articles on ancient medicine, including Democede di Crotone e Udjahorresnet di Saïs (Pisa University Press, 2015).