Ravenna: its role in earlier medieval change and exchange
Keywords:
Ravenna, Social, Economic, Church, Rome, ReligionSynopsis
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.
The book is an invaluable resource for scholars of early medieval history, as well as being of interest to the general reader.
Published as part of the IHR Conference Series by the Institute of Historical Research.
Chapters
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Introduction
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1. A tale of two cities: Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rulePeter Heather
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2. Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century RavennaDeborah M. Deliyannis
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3. Production, promotion and reception: the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the middle agesMaria Cristina Carile
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4. Ravenna in the sixth century: the archaeology of changeCarola Jäggi
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5. The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of JustinianYuri A. Marano
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6. Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory: the papyri evidenceSalvatore Cosentino
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7. A striking evolution: the mint of Ravenna during the early middle agesVivien Prigent
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8. Roman law in RavennaSimon Corcoran
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9. The church of Ravenna, Constantinople and Rome in the seventh centuryVeronica Ortenberg West-Harling
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10. Nobility, aristocracy and status in early medieval RavennaEdward M. Schoolman
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11. Charlemagne and RavennaJinty Nelson
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12. The early medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna and the PentapolisWolfgang Haubrichs
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13. San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuriesAndrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli
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14. Life and learning in earlier eleventh-century Ravenna: the evidence of Peter Damian’s lettersMichael Gledhill
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15. Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna: imperial renewal or new beginnings?Tom Brown
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