Author: Elena Baldi
Publisher: BAR International Series
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The research in this book is the result of work begun in the summer of 2003 when the author became involved with the research team investigating the harbour area of Classe, in a joint project of the Department of History, Culture, Civilisation (then Department of Archaeology), the Superintendence of Archaeological Heritage of Emilia Romagna with the Fondazione RavennAntica. The author carried out the cleaning and conservation of metal objects from the excavation, particularly the coins. Part of this work was realised in a postgraduate dissertation that discussed the evidence of the 2002-2003 excavation campaigns in the harbour area of Classe. The archaeological research of the harbour carried out between 2001 and 2005 brought to light a total of 2564 coins, most of which are illegible and in alloys of copper, documenting a chronological range between the 2nd century BC and the 8th century AD. The investigation of the Basilica of San Severo started in the summer of 2006 and is still ongoing (2014), however, the coins included in this work are those retrieved between 2006 and 2010 only. In this case, the excavations brought to light a total of 224 coins, in alloys of silver, copper and billon, with a large variety of emissions that witness the settlement of the site between the 1st century BC and the 14th century AD, with a few, sporadic modern and contemporary finds of the 20th century. The archaeological contexts studied represent a focal point for the reconstruction of the history of the territory and cover a wide chronological span that is useful for defining the characteristics of the settlement (housing, productive areas etc.) and its evolution.
Author: Salvatore Cosentino
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110684438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491
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In the last twenty years scholarship on late antique and early medieval Ravenna has resulted in a certain number of publications mainly focused on the fields of architecture, mosaics and archaeology. On the contrary, much less attention has been paid on labour – both manual and intellectual – as well as the structure of production and objects derived from manufacturing activities, despite the fact that Ravenna is the place which preserves the highest number of historical evidence among all centres of the late Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite, ranging from papyri to inscriptions, from ivories to marbles, as well as luxury objects, pottery, and coins. Starting from concrete typologies of hand-manufactured goods existing in the Ravennate milieu, the book aims at exploring the multifaceted traditions of late antique and early Byzantine handicraft from the fourth to the eighth century AD. Its perspective is to pay attention more on patronage, social taste, acculturation, workers and the economic industry of production which supported the demand, circulation and distribution of artefacts, than on the artistic evaluation of the objects themselves.
Author: Thomas J. MacMaster
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351609033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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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. The East Roman world, commonly known by the ahistorical term "Byzantium", is generally imagined as an Eastern Mediterranean empire, with Italy part of the medieval "West". Across 18 individually authored chapters, an introduction and conclusion, this volume makes a different case: for an East Roman world of which Italy forms a crucial part, and an Italian peninsula which is inextricably connected to—and, indeed, includes—regions ruled from Constantinople. Celebrating a scholar whose work has led this field over several decades, Thomas S. Brown, the chapters focus on the general themes of empire, cities and elites, and explore these from the angles of sources and historiography, archaeology, social, political and economic history, and more besides. With contributions from established and early career scholars, elucidating particular issues of scholarship as well as general historical developments, the volume provides both immediate contributions and opens space for a new generation of readers and scholars to a growing field.
Author: Judith Herrin
Publisher: University of London Press
ISBN: 9781909646148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A tale of two cities : Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rule / Peter Heather -- Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century Ravenna / Deborah M. Deliyannis -- Production, promotion, and reception : the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Maria Cristina Carile -- Ravenna in the sixth century : the archaeology of change / Carola Jäggi -- The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of Justinian / Yari A. Marano -- Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory : the papyri evidence / Salvatore Cosentino -- A striking evolution : the mint of Ravenna during the early Middle Ages / Vivien Prigent -- Roman law in Ravenna / Simon Corcoran -- The church of Ravenna, Constantinople, and Rome in the seventh century / Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling -- Nobility, aristocracy, and status in early Medieval Ravenna / Edward M. Schoolman -- Charlemagne and Ravenna / Jinty Nelson -- The early Medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna, and the Pentapolis / Wolfgang Haubricht -- San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuries / Andrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli -- Life and learning in earliest eleventh-century Ravenna : the evidence of Peter Damian's letters / Michael Gledhill -- Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna : imperial renewal or new beginnings? / Tom Brown.
Author: Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521362917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Author: Jerzy Gawronski
Publisher: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9492444291
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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This volume gathers 88 contributions related to the theme ‘Ships and Maritime Landscapes’ of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology (ISBSA 13) held in Amsterdam on the 7th to 12th October 2012. The articles include both papers and poster presentations by experts in the field of nautical archaeology, history of ships and shipbuilding, and naval architecture. The contributions deal not only with the theme of maritime landscapes but also with a variety of ship related subjects, like regional watercraft, construction and typology, material applications and design, outfitting, reconstruction and current research.
Author: Spink & Son
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Hagith Sivan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195379128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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Wedding in Gaul (414) -- Funerals in Barcelona (414-416) -- Making of an empress (417-425) -- Restoration and rehabilitation (425-431) -- Bride, a book, and a pope (437-438) -- Between Rome and Ravenna (438-450).
Author: Francis Haskell
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300059496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.
