Rome, Ravenna and Venice, 750-1000 : Byzantine heritage, imperial present, and the construction of city identity / Veronica West-Harling.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (720 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191815942 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Italy -- History -- Carolingian rule, 774-887 | Italy -- History -- Period of Italian Kings, 887-962 | Italy -- History -- Germanic rule, 962-1268 | Rome (Italy) -- History -- 476-1420 | Ravenna (Italy) -- History -- To 1500 | Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198754206DDC classification: 945.02 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: A comparative and interdisciplinary study, this title explores how three cities preserved and remoulded their common Byzantine past. It sheds light on how far these societies were the heirs of the Empire and how they imagined a new part-Roman, part-Italian identity in the centuries after their imperial links were severed.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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This edition previously issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A comparative and interdisciplinary study, this title explores how three cities preserved and remoulded their common Byzantine past. It sheds light on how far these societies were the heirs of the Empire and how they imagined a new part-Roman, part-Italian identity in the centuries after their imperial links were severed.
Specialized.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 14, 2020).