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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/917.9781909646728

Number of pages: 382

Number of illustrations: 62

Publication date: 31 July 2017

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Ravenna

Its role in earlier medieval change and exchange

Judith Herrin (Editor), Jinty Nelson (Editor)

Series: IHR Conference Series

Published in association with: Institute of Historical Research

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. Ravenna’s story is all the more interesting because it was complicated and unpredictable: discontinuous and continuous, sometimes obscure, sometimes including bursts of energetic activity. Throughout the early medieval centuries its flame sometimes flared, sometimes flickered, but never went out.

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Introduction

1 A tale of two cities: Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rule

Peter Heather

2 Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century Ravenna

Deborah M. Deliyannis

3 Production, promotion and reception: the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the middle ages

Maria Cristina Carile

4 Ravenna in the sixth century: the archaeology of change

Carola Jäggi

5 The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of Justinian

Yuri A. Marano

6 Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory: the papyri evidence

Salvatore Cosentino

7 A striking evolution: the mint of Ravenna during the early middle ages

Vivien Prigent

8 Roman law in Ravenna

Simon Corcoran

9 The church of Ravenna, Constantinople and Rome in the seventh century

Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling

10 Nobility, aristocracy and status in early medieval Ravenna

Edward M. Schoolman

11 Charlemagne and Ravenna

Jinty Nelson

12 The early medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna and the Pentapolis

Wolfgang Haubrichs

13 San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuries

Andrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli

14 Life and learning in earlier eleventh-century Ravenna: the evidence of Peter Damian’s letters

Michael Gledhill

15 Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna: imperial renewal or new beginnings?

Tom Brown

PDF: 9781909646728

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Hardback: 9781909646148 / 382 pages / 245mm x 163mm

Judith Herrin (Editor)

Jinty Nelson (Editor)

“A wonderful read!”

“Wonderful!”

Subject: History, Medieval History

BISAC codes: HIS037010

Thema codes: NH, NHDJ

Keywords: Adriatic trade, Constantinople, Early Medieval Ravenna, Italy, Medieval Art History, Medieval Christianity, Ostrogoths, Social History

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