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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Veronica West-Harling |
ISBN: | 0198754205 9780198754206 |
OCLC Number: | 1105358537 |
Description: | xxiii, 681 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1: A tale of three cities: history and histories2: The actors: the elites and the populus I. ROME3: The actors: the elites and the populus II. RAVENNA and VENICE4: The stage: places of power, instruments of control5: Exercising power in the city: the public space6: Memory and the construction of city identityConcluding thoughts |
Responsibility: | Veronica West-Harling. |
Abstract:
A comparative and interdisciplinary study, Rome, Ravenna, and Venice 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.
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