Ken Dark

Kenneth Rainsbury Dark FSA (born in Brixton, London) is a British archaeologist who works on the 1st millennium AD in Europe (including Roman and immediately post-Roman Britain) and the Roman and Byzantine Middle East, on the archaeology of religion (especially early Christian archaeology), archaeological theory and methods, and on the relationship between the study of the past and contemporary global political, cultural and economic issues.

Biography

He received a BA in archaeology from the University of York ^[1] and after taking his PhD in archaeology and history at the University of Cambridge was attached to Cambridge, Oxford, Reading and King's College London, before returning to Cambridge, where he is currently based. At the University of Reading he became professor of archaeology and history and was director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies.

He holds honorary professorships from several European and American universities, has written books and academic articles and has directed and co-directed excavations and survey projects, both in Britain and the Middle East, including in Istanbul (Turkey) – where he co-directed a archaeological study of the Byzantine church of Hagia Sophia and its environs – and in and around Nazareth (Israel). ^[2] He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.

Works

Bibliography

• Dark, Ken (2023). Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth. Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780192865397.
• Dark, Ken; Kostenec, Jan (2023). Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople. Oxbow Books. ISBN   9781789259872.
• Dark, Ken; Özgümüş, Ferudun (2022). Constantinople: Archaeology of a Byzantine Megapolis. Oxbow Books. ISBN   9781789258066.
• Dark, Ken (2021). The Sisters of Nazareth Convent: a Roman-period, Byzantine and Crusader site in central Nazareth. Routledge. ISBN   9780367542191.
• Dark, Ken (2021). Roman-period and Byzantine Nazareth and its Hinterland. Routledge. ISBN   9780367408237.
• Dark, Ken (2018). The Waves of Time: Long-term Change and International Relations. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   9781474288309.
• Dark, Ken (2001). Byzantine Pottery. Tempus. ISBN   9780752419428.
• Dark, Ken (2000). Britain and the End of the Roman Empire. Tempus. ISBN   9780752414515.
• Dark, Ken (1995). Theoretical Archaeology. Duckworth. ISBN   9780715626344.(Chinese and Japanese translations were published in 2004 and 2006)
• Dark, Ken (1994). Civitas to Kingdom: British Political Continuity 300 - 800. Leicester University Press. ISBN   9780718514655.

Selected academic papers

• "The earliest English church? The Chapel of St Pancras at St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, reconsidered", Journal of the British Archaeological Association 175, 2022, 13-36
• "Royal burial in fifth–to seventh–century western Britain and Ireland", Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 150, 2021 (for 2020), 21-40
• "Returning to the Caves of Mystery: texts, archaeology and the origins of Christian topography and pilgrimage in the Holy Land", Royal Anthropological Institute Henry Myers Lecture, Strata 38, 2020,103-124.
• "Stones of the saints? Inscribed stones, monasticism and the evangelisation of western and northern Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries", The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 72, 2021, 239-58

References

1. Ashgate (2004). Landscapes of change: rural ... - Google Books. Ashgate. ISBN   9781840146172 . Retrieved 1 March 2010.
2. Jarus, Owen (2020). "Biblical story of Jesus possibly explained by excavations in his hometown of Nazareth". livescience.com. Retrieved 12 December 2022.

Other sources

• Ken Dark: Nazareth Archaeology Project 2007. Field Work, Travel, and Research Reports: Byzantium. (reed here)
• Ken Dark. Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other fields (Thomson Gale: 2008)
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