Italy And The East Roman World In The Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities And Elites, 476-1204 (Birmingham Byzantine And Ottoman Studies)

Introduction: Italy and the East Roman world, 476-1204 / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Cassiodorus and the reluctant provinciales of Dalmatia / Cristina La Rocca -- Procopius of Caesarea in Renaissance Italy / Brian Croke -- Ambrosio de Morales and the Codex Vetustissimus Ovetensis / Roger Collins -- Constructing the enemy: Byzantium in Paul the Deacon / Eduardo Fabbro -- Travels of an exarch: Smaragdus and the Anastasian Walls / Jim Crow -- Remarks on the sociocultural and religious history of early Byzantine Ravenna in the light of epigraphic and archival evidence / Alessandro Bazzocchi -- Exarchs and others: secular patrons of churches in the sixth to eighth centuries / Deborah M. Deliyannis -- The exarchate, the empire, and the elites: some comparative remarks / John Haldon -- Bishops and merchants: the economy of Ravenna at the beginnings of the Middle Ages / Enrico Cirelli -- Renovatio, continuity, innovation: Ravenna's role in legitimation and collective Mmemory (8th-9th centuries) / Nicole Jantzen-Lopez -- Thomas Morosini, first Latin patriarch of Constantinople, and the Ravenna connection / Michael Angold -- Dux to Episcopus: from ruling cities to controlling sees in Byzantine Italy, 554-900 / Edward M. Schoolman -- The Duke of Istria, the Roman past, and the Frankish present / Francesco Borri -- Hegemony, elitedom and ethnicity: "Armenians" in imperial Bari, 874-1071 / Nicholas S. M. Matheou -- What was wrong with bishops in sixth-century southern Italy? / Patricia Skinner -- Before the Venetians? evidence for slave trading out of Italy, 489-751 / Thomas J. MacMaster -- Urban life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan compared / Ross Balzaretti -- A dance to the music of time: Greeks and Latins in Medieval Taranto / Vera von Falkenhausen -- The study of empire and cities in the Medieval Mediterranean: personal reflections and conclusions / Thomas S. Brown.

• | Author: Thomas J. Macmaster, Nicholas S. M. Matheou, T. S. Brown
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 382 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1032053879
• | ISBN-13: 9781032053875