Ravenna

299 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h44min.
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.Introduction1 A tale of two cities: Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rulePeter Heather2 Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century RavennaDeborah M. Deliyannis 3 Production, promotion and reception: the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the middle agesMaria Cristina Carile 4 Ravenna in the sixth century: the archaeology of changeCarola Jäggi5 The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of JustinianYuri A. Marano6 Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory: the papyri evidenceSalvatore Cosentino7 A striking evolution: the mint of Ravenna during the early middle agesVivien Prigent 8 Roman law in RavennaSimon Corcoran9 The church of Ravenna, Constantinople and Rome in the seventh centuryVeronica Ortenberg West-Harling10 Nobility, aristocracy and status in early medieval RavennaEdward M. Schoolman11 Charlemagne and RavennaJinty Nelson12 The early medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna and the PentapolisWolfgang Haubrichs13 San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuriesAndrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli 14 Life and learning in earlier eleventh-century Ravenna: the evidence of Peter Damian’s lettersMichael Gledhill15 Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna: imperial renewal or new beginnings?Tom Brown