Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812)

ISBN-13: 9780367594435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 332 str.

Mladen Ančic; Jonathan Shepard; Trpimir Vedris

Opis

Although often mentioned in textbooks about the Carolingian and Byzantine empires, the Treaty of Aachen has not received much close attention. This volume attempts not just to fill the gap, but to view the episode through both micro- and macro-lenses. Introductory chapters review the state of relations between Byzantium and the Frankish realm in

Recenzje

‘… these nineteen clearly written and cogently argued essays, each with its own short bibliography, can only make these events and debates better known to wider scholarship’ - Early Medieval Europe (29 (3))

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Circles Overlapping in the Upper Adriatic, Jonathan Shepard  PART ONE: THE FRANKS MOVE EAST  2. The Treaty of Aachen: How Many Empires?, Mladen Ančić  3. Aemulatio imperii and the South-Eastern Frontier of the Carolingian World, Ivan Majnarić  4. Imperial Politics and its Regional Consequences: Istria between Byzantium and the Franks 788–812, Peter Štih  PART TWO: BYZANTIUM IN TURMOIL  5. A Resurgent Empire? Byzantium in the Early 800s, Panos Sophoulis  6. Franks and Bulgars in the First Half of the Ninth Century, Angel Nikolov  7. Dangerous Neighbours: the Treaty of Aachen and the Defeat of Nikephoros I by the Bulgars in 811, Daniel Ziemann  PART THREE: CIRCLES OVERLAPPING IN THE NORTHERN ADRIATIC  8. Aachen, Venice and Archeology, Sauro Gelichi  9. Patriarchs as Patrons: the Attribution of the Ciboria in Santa Maria delle Grazie at Grado, Magdalena Skoblar  10. Holding the Aquileian Patriarchate’s Title: the Key Role of Local Early Ninth-Century Hagiography, Marianna Cerno  PART FOUR: DALMATIA: THE LAND IN BETWEEN  11. Post-Roman Dalmatia: Collapse and Regeneration of a Complex Social System, Danijel Dzino  12. One More Renaissance? Dalmatia and the Revival of the European Economy, Neven Budak  PART FIVE: PANNONIA BENEATH THE SURFACE  13. What did the Treaty of Aachen do for the Peoples of the Carpathian Basin?, Béla Miklós Szőke  14. Lower Pannonia before and after the Treaty of Aachen, Hrvoje Gračanin  15. Changing Political Landscapes in the Ninth-Century Central Carpathian Basin: Interpreting Recent Settlement Excavation Data, Miklós Takács  PART SIX: THE CHURCH BETWEEN ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE  16. Rome and the Heritage of Ancient Illyricum in the Ninth Century, Maddalena Betti  17. Dalmatian Bishops at the Council of Nicaea in 787 and the Status of the Dalmatian Church in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries, Predrag Komatina  18. New Evidence for the Re-establishment of the Adriatic Dioceses in the Late Eighth Century, Ivan Basić  19. Amalarius’ Stay in Zadar Reconsidered, Trpimir Vedriš

O autorze

Mladen Ančić is Professor of History at the Universities of Zadar and Zagreb. He has published on the Hungarian-Croatian kingdom and Bosnia in the fourteenth century, the medieval city of Jajce, and on historiography and nationalism.

Jonathan Shepard was Lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge. Co-author of The Emergence of Rus with Simon Franklin, his edited volumes include The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire.

Trpimir Vedriš is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zagreb. His co-edited volumes include Saintly Bishops and Bishops’ Saints (with John Ott) and Cuius Patrocinio Tota Gaudet Regio (with Stanislava Kuzmová and Ana Marinković).