Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middles Ages

Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middles Ages
ISBN-10
9004118691
ISBN-13
9789004118690
Category
History
Pages
403
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
BRILL
Authors
Neil Christie, Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Nancy Gauthier

Description

The papers in this volume are contributed by leading historians, art historians and archaeologists and focus on 5 key themes: the evolution of settlement patterns in the Byzantine empire; the impact of barbarian elites in Spain, Gaul, Italy and Pannonia; the role of the Church in the definition of new links between town and territories; the situation in culturally homogenous territories such as Constantinople and the minor Langbard polities; the situation in economically defined territories. Contributions include papers by Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Pablo C. Diaz, Michel Fixot, Gisela Ripoll and Javier Arce, Sauro Gelichi, Wolfram Brandes and John Haldon, Nancy Gauthier, Gisella Cantino Wataghin, Ross Balzaretti, Martina Caroli, Neil Christie, Bryan Ward-Perkins and John Mitchell.

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