Introduction

This volume of Acta ad archaeologia et artium historiam pertinentia gathers selected contributions from the workshop City, Hinterland, and Environment: Urban Resilience in the Late Roman and Early Islamic Period. Held at the University of Bergen September 23-25, 2019. Papers approach the topic from a variety of angles, including cultural and socioeconomic hinterlands and environments, in their discussions of urban resilience. The meeting was part of the project Globalization, Urbanization and Urban Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Roman and Early Islamic periods funded by Nordforsk (grant no. NOSHSWS-2 00052/NOS-HS), with a workshop on globalization taking place at the University of Helsinki in December 2018, and one on urban religion at Aarhus University in May 2019.