Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204

ISBN-13: 9781138091313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 382 str.

Thomas J. MacMaster; Nicholas Matheou

Opis

Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula’s relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the east, across the early and central Middle Ages.

 

Spis treści

Introduction: Italy and the East Roman World, 476-1204  Part 1: Sources & Historiography  1. Cassiodorus and the Reluctant Provinciales of Dalmatia  2. Procopius of Caesarea in Renaissance Italy  3.  Ambrosio de Morales and the Codex Vetustissimus Ovetensis  4. Constructing the Enemy: Byzantium in Paul the Deacon  Part 2: The Exarchate of Ravenna  5. Travels of an Exarch: Smaragdus and the Anastasian Walls  6. Remarks on the Sociocultural and Religious History of Early Byzantine Ravenna in the Light of Epigraphic and Archival Evidence  7. Exarchs and Others: Secular Patrons of Churches in the Sixth to Eighth Centuries  8. The Exarchate, the Empire, and the Elites: Some Comparative Remarks  9. Bishops and Merchants: The Economy of Ravenna at the Beginnings of the Middle Ages  Part 3: Ravenna after the Exarchate  10. Renovatio, Continuity, Innovation: Ravenna’s Role in Legitimation and Collective Memory (8^th-9^th centuries)  11. Thomas Morosini, First Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Ravenna Connection  Part 4: Empire & Elites  12. Dux to Episcopus: From Ruling Cities to Controlling Sees in Byzantine Italy, 554-900  13. The Duke of Istria, the Roman Past, and the Frankish Present  14. Hegemony, Elitedom and Ethnicity: "Armenians" in Imperial Bari, 874-1071  Part 5: Elites & Cities  15. What Was Wrong with Bishops in Sixth-Century Southern Italy?  16. Before the Venetians? Evidence for Slave Trading out of Italy, 489-751  17. Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared  18. A Dance to the Music of Time: Greeks and Latins in Medieval Taranto  Conclusion: The Study of Empire and Cities in the Medieval Mediterranean: Personal Reflections and Conclusions