Ravenna: Its role in earlier medieval change and exchange (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781909646148)

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.

Author: Judith Herrin
ISBN-10: 1909646148
ISBN-13: 9781909646148
Publisher: University of London Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2016
Pages: 382
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d