Ravenna
Its role in earlier medieval change and exchange
Contributor(s)
Herrin, Judith (editor)
Nelson, Jinty (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Early Medieval Ravenna; Italy; Ostrogoths; Constantinople; Medieval Art History; Social History; Medieval Christianity; Adriatic tradeDOI
10.14296/917.9781909646728ISBN
9781909646148, 9781909646339, 9781914477799, 9781909646728Publisher
University of London PressPublisher website
https://uolpress.co.uk/Publication date and place
London, 2016Imprint
University of London PressSeries
IHR Conference Series,Classification
History and Archaeology
CE period up to c 1500