Ravenna : Its Role in Earlier Medieval Change and Exchange

Herrin, Judith (EDT); Nelson, Jinty (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1909646148 / ISBN 13: 9781909646148

Published by University of London Press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ravenna : Its Role in Earlier Medieval Change and Exchange
• Publisher: University of London Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909646148
• ISBN 13: 9781909646148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Judith Herrin is the Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King s College London. She is the author of "Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire", "Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium", and "The Formation of Christendom" (all Princeton).

Janet Nelson is Emerita Professor in the Department of History, King's College London, UK. She is a Fellow of the British Academy has published extensively on early medieval Europe. Her research focus has been on kingship, government and political ideas, on religion and ritual, and increasingly on women and gender.