Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean

Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204
Herausgeber: Macmaster, Thomas J.; Matheou, Nicholas S. M.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 765g
• ISBN-13: 9781138091313
• ISBN-10: 1138091316
• Artikelnr.: 59999105

Autorenporträt

Thomas J. MacMaster is teaching at Morehouse College, Georgia. His research focusses on the slave trade and human trafficking in the early medieval Mediterranean, the topic of his forthcoming monograph Slavery and the Making of the Medieval World. He has also published more generally on the transition from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Nicholas S.M. Matheou is programme manager at the Armenian Institute, London. His research focusses on the social, political and economic history of the medieval Middle East and Mediterranean. He has published on East Roman political thought, has a forthcoming study and translation of an eleventh-century Armenian historian and his current research project focusses on the medieval city of Ani.

Inhaltsangabe

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 (8th-9th 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