| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 363 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) |
| Contents |
A tale of two cities : Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rule / Peter Heather -- Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century Ravenna / Deborah M. Deliyannis -- Production, promotion, and reception : the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Maria Cristina Carile -- Ravenna in the sixth century : the archaeology of change / Carola Jäggi -- The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of Justinian / Yari A. Marano -- Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory : the papyri evidence / Salvatore Cosentino -- A striking evolution : the mint of Ravenna during the early Middle Ages / Vivien Prigent -- Roman law in Ravenna / Simon Corcoran -- The church of Ravenna, Constantinople, and Rome in the seventh century / Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling -- Nobility, aristocracy, and status in early Medieval Ravenna / Edward M. Schoolman -- Charlemagne and Ravenna / Jinty Nelson -- The early Medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna, and the Pentapolis / Wolfgang Haubricht -- San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuries / Andrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli -- Life and learning in earliest eleventh-century Ravenna : the evidence of Peter Damian's letters / Michael Gledhill -- Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna : imperial renewal or new beginnings? / Tom Brown |
| Summary |
In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a connecting-point between East and West, ensured that it remained an intermittent attraction for early medieval kings and emperors throughout the period from the late fifth to the eleventh century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Humanities Digital Library; viewed November 8, 2017) |
| SUBJECT |
Ravenna (Italy) -- History
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| Subject |
Italy -- Ravenna.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Herrin, Judith, editor
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Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942- editor.
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| LC no. |
2017380099 |
| ISBN |
9781909646728 |
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1909646725 |
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1909646148 |
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9781909646148 |
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