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At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herrin, Judith (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
To 1500
Cities and towns > Italy > History > To 1500.
Social history.
Social Conditions
Histoire sociale.
social history.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Kings and rulers.
Cities and towns.
Ravenna (Italy) > History > To 1500.
Ravenna (Italy) > Church history.
Ravenna (Italy) > Kings and rulers > Biography.
Italy.
Italy > Ravenna.
Arian Baptistry.
Byzantine architecture.
Church of San Vitale.
City of Mosaics.
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis.
Eternal Ravenna.
Europe's greatest cities.
Exarchate of Revenna.
From the Etruscans to the Venetians.
Galla Placidia Mausoleum.
Justinian mosaic.
Jutta Dresken-Weiland.
Mariëtte Verhoeven.
Massimiliano David.
Ravenna in Late Antiquity.
The Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna.
great cities of Europe.
medieval history.
mosaics of Ravenna.
mosaics of San Vitale.
where in Italy should I visit?.
Church history.
Biographies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The emergence of Ravenna as the imperial capital of the West
  • Part One 390-450. Galla Palacidia. Galla Placidia, Theodosian princess
  • Honorius (395-423) and the development of Ravenna
  • Galla Placidia at the western court (416-23)
  • Galla Placidia, builder and empress mother
  • Part Two 450-93. The rise of the bishops. Valentinian III and Bishop Neon
  • Sidonius Apollinaris in Ravenna
  • Romulus Augustulus and King Odoacer
  • Part Three 493-540. Theoderic the Goth, Arian King of Ravenna. Theoderic the Ostrogoth
  • Theoderic's kingdom
  • Theoderic's diplomacy
  • Theoderic the lawgiver
  • Amalasuintha and the legacy of Theoderic
  • Part Four 540-70. Justinian I and the campaigns in North Africa and Italy. Belisarius captures Ravenna
  • San Vitale, epitome of Early Christendom
  • Narses and the Pragmatic Sanction
  • Archbishop Maximian, bulwark of the West
  • Archbishop Agnellus and the seizure of the Arian churches
  • Part Five 568-643. King Alboin and the Lombard conquest. Alboin invades
  • The exarchate of Ravenna
  • Gregory the Great and the control of Ravenna
  • Isaac, the Armenian exarch
  • Agnellus the doctor
  • Part Six 610-700. The expansion of Islam. The Arab conquests
  • Constans II in Sicily
  • The Sixth Oecumenical Council
  • The Anonumous Cosmographer of Ravenna
  • Part Seven 685-725. The two reigns of Justinian II. The Council in Trullo
  • The heroic Archbishop Damianus
  • The tempestuous life of Archbishop Felix
  • Part Eight 700-769. Ravenna returns to the margins. Leo III and the defeat of the Arabs
  • The beginnings of Iconoclasm
  • Pope Zacharias and the Lombard conquest of Ravenna
  • Archbishop Sergius takes control
  • Part Nine 756-813. Charlemagne and Ravenna. The long rule of King Desiderius
  • Charles in Italy, 774-87
  • Charles claims the stones of Ravenna
  • Conclusion: The glittering legacy of Ravenna.

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