A Companion to Byzantine Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-30769-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 830 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1315 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World

This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview of current research as well as new insights concerning political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the Italian regions under Byzantine rule. The methodological approach of the volume combines history with archaeology and art history, while remaining focused on the general framework of the early medieval Mediterranean. The result is a fresh and up-to-date synthesis that can be useful both for specialists and students.

Contributors are: Lucia Arcifa, Paul Arthur, Isabella Baldini, Massimo Bernabò, Brunella Bruno, Salvatore Cosentino, Nathaniel Cutajar, Francesco D’Aiuto, Paola Degni, Deborah Deliyannis, Vera von Falkenhausen, Sauro Gelichi, Federico Marazzi, Jean-Marie Martin, Alessandra Molinari, Enrico Morini, Annliese Nef, Ghislaine Noye, Annick Peters-Custot, Vivien Prigent, Mario Re, Denis Sami, Pier Giorgio Spanu, and Enrico Zanini.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cosentino, Salvatore

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Mapping the Memory of Byzantine Italy

Salvatore Cosentino and Enrico Zanini

Part 1: Society and Institutions

1 Politics and Society

Salvatore Cosentino

2 Ecclesiastic Life and Its Institutions

Salvatore Cosentino

3 Monastic Life and Its Institutions

Enrico Morini

4 Byzantine Administration and the Army

Vivien Prigent

5 Byzantines and Lombards The Old and the Young: Byzantium in Italy, or How It Was Condemned to Be the Representative of an Antiquated Roman Identity

Federico Marazzi

6 Byzantium and Islam in Southern Italy (7th–11th Century)

Annliese Nef

7 Greek Communities in Post-Byzantine Italy

Annick Peters-Custot

Part 2: Communications, Economy and Landscape

8 The Network of Interregional Roads and Harbours

Denis Sami

9 Rural Economy: Organization, Exploitation and Resources

Jean-Marie Martin

10 Non-Agricultural Items: Local Production, Importation and Redistribution

Enrico Zanini

11 Mints, Coin Production and Circulation

Vivien Prigent

part 3: Settlements and Landscape: Regional Morphologies

12 Venice, the Exarchate and the Pentapolis

Sauro Gelichi

13 Rome and the Roman Duchy

Alessandra Molinari

14 Byzantine Naples and Gaeta

Federico Marazzi

15 Byzantine Calabria

Ghislaine Noyé

16 Byzantine Apulia

Paul Arthur

17 Byzantine Sicily

Lucia Arcifa

18 Byzantine Sardinia

Pier Giorgio Spanu

19 Byzantine Malta

Brunella Bruno and Nathaniel Cutajar

Culture and Education

20 Greek and Latin in Byzantine Italy (6th–11th Century)

Vera von Falkenhausen

21 Bishops, Cities, and Historical Memory in Byzantine Italy

Deborah M. Deliyannis

22 Telling the Sanctity in Byzantine Italy

Mario Re

23 Devotion and Prayer in Byzantine Italy

Francesco D’Aiuto

24 Medieval Art in Italy and Byzantium (ca. 550–1050): A Viaticum

Massimo Bernabò

25 Conceiving Social Space in Byzantine Italy: Monumental Architecture and Building Typologies

Isabella Baldini

26 Literary and Book Production in Byzantine Italy

Paola Degni

27 Legal Texts and Juridical Practice in Byzantine Italy

Cristina Rognoni

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Salvatore Cosentino, Ph.D. (1990), is Professor of Byzantine Civilization at the University of Bologna. He has published many studies on Late Antique and Byzantine Italy, including Storia dell’Italia bizantina (VI-XI). Da Giustiniano ai Normanni (Bononia University Press, 2008) and, as editor, Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship (De Gruyter, 2020).