The consumption of coffee in the early modern period is often fixed to the image of the seditious and raucous coffeehouse or with the ritual of offering a guest hospitality. The material accompaniments of coffee consumption, however, frequently go understudied. This talk concentrates on Early Modern Greece and Cyprus to understand better the material role of coffee consumption on the Greek and Cypriot landscape through the presence of Kütahya wares from central Anatolia. The narrative that emerges emphasizes a material role in status display, arguing that Kütahya wares form an archaeological marker of a rural, non-urban authority in a landscape and time period often under analyzed by archaeology.

Justin Anthony Mann is a PhD candidate at the University of Virginia and currently a junior fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University). Mann has participated in a range of international archaeological projects in Greece, where he is currently a survey leader for the Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project. In addition, he has worked extensively with cultural resource management firms in the American Great Plains region. He was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship (Fulbright Greece 2019–2020) for his dissertation research on Byzantine monastic landscapes, and he has also held the University of Virginia’s Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship and Kapp Family Fellowship. His research interests include Byzantine monasticism, landscape archaeology, human geography, and the archaeology of commodities in Byzantine and Ottoman periods.

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