Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship : Labour, Culture, and the Economy

343 Pages·2020·17.908 MB·English

by  Salvatore Cosentino (editor)

RavennaandtheTraditionsofLateAntiqueandEarlyByzantineCraftsmanship
Millennium-Studien
zu Kultur und Geschichte
des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr.
Millennium Studies
in the culture and history
of the first millennium C.E.
Herausgegeben von / Edited by
Wolfram Brandes, Alexander Demandt,
Peter von Möllendorff, Dennis Pausch,
Rene Pfeilschifter, Karla Pollmann
Volume 85
Ravenna and the
Traditions of Late
Antique and Early
Byzantine Craftsmanship
Labour, Culture, and the Economy
Edited by
Salvatore Cosentino
ISBN978-3-11-068432-2
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Contents
ListofContributors VII
Abbreviations IX
SalvatoreCosentino
Introduction 1
PaulArthur
1 TheChangingGeographyofArtefactProductionintheLateAntiqueand
EarlyByzantineMediterranean 5
GlennPeers
2 LateAntiqueMakingandWonder 33
SalvatoreCosentino
3 TheStructuralFeaturesofRavenna’sSocioeconomicHistoryinLate
Antiquity 59
IsabellaBaldini
4 TheToilsomeJourneyofMarblesandStones 83
MariaCristinaCarile
5 IvoryProduction:Commerce,CultureandPower 115
EnricoCirelli
6 BricksforRavenna:MaterialsandtheConstructionofaLateAntique
ImperialResidence 153
DeborahM.Deliyannis
7 TheSocialSphereofWriting:Manuscripts,InscriptionsandPapyri 195
DeboraFerreri
8 GraveGoodsandBurialTypologies:FuneraryCustomsinRavenna 211
ChiaraGuarnieri
9 Ravenna,ClasseanditsSurroundings:PotteryasaMirrorofEveryday
Life 259
VI Contents
VivienPrigent
10 NotesontheProductionandCirculationoftheByzantineRavennate
Coinage 293
JohnHaldon
11 ConcludingRemarks.One 311
JudithHerrin
12 ConcludingRemarks.Two 317
Index 325
List of Contributors
PaulArthur DeboraFerreri
ProfessorofChristianandMedieval AdjunctProfessor
Archaeology AlmaMaterStudiorum–Universitàdi
UniversitàdelSalento Bologna
[email protected] [email protected]
IsabellaBaldini ChiaraGuarnieri
ProfessorofChristianandMedieval ArchaeologistOfficer
Archaelogy SoprintendenzaArcheologia,BelleArtie
AlmaMaterStudiorum–Universitàdi Paesaggioperlacittàmetropolitanadi
Bologna BolognaeleprovincediModena,Reggio
[email protected] EmiliaeFerrara.
[email protected]
MariaCristinaCarile
AssociateProfessorofMedievalArt JohnHaldon
AlmaMaterStudiorum–Universitàdi ProfessorofByzantineHistoryandHellenic
Bologna Studies(emeritus)
[email protected] PrincetonUniversity
[email protected]
EnricoCirelli
AlexandervonHumboldtResearcherat JudithHerrin
LudwigMaximiliansUniversität ProfessorEmeritaKing’sCollege
InstitutfürVor-undFrühgeschichteund London
ProvinzialrömischeArchäologie [email protected]
JuniorResearcherofChristianandMedieval
Archaeology GlennPeers
AlmaMaterStudiorum–Universitàdi ProfessorofMedievalArt
Bologna SyracuseUniversity
[email protected] [email protected]
SalvatoreCosentino VivienPrigent
ProfessorofByzantineCivilization CNRS,chargéderecherche
AlmaMaterStudiorum–Universitàdi UMR8167,OrientetMéditerranée
Bologna [email protected]
[email protected]
DeborahM.Deliyannis
ProfessorofHistory
IndianaUniversity,Bloomington
[email protected]
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110684346-203

Abbreviations
CARB CorsidiCulturasull’ArteRavennateeBizantina.Ravenna.
CIL CorpusinscriptionumLatinarum.Berolini.
CHLA ChartaeLatinaeantiquiores,XXIX(=Italy,I).Dietikon–Zürich.
CJ Corpusiuriscivilis,II,CodexIustinianus,recensuitP.Krüger.Dublin–Zürich
(editiostereotypa).
CTh TheodosianilibriXVIcumconstitutionibusSirmondianisetlegesnovellaead
Theodosianumpertinentes,edideruntTh.MommsenetP.M.Meyer.Berolini.
LPRa AgnelliRavennatisLiberPontificalisEcclesiaeRavennatis,curaetstudioDeborah
MauskopfDeliyannis(CorpusChristianorum,ContinuatioMediaevalis,),Turnhout
;othereditionsbyAlessandroTestiRasponi,RerumItalicarumScriptoresII/,
Bologna(untilch.);andbyOswaldHolderEgger,inMGH,SSLang.etItal.,
Hannoverae,pp.–.
MGH MonumentaGermaniaeHistorica.Hannoverae–(AA=AuctoresAntiquissimi;
Epp.=Epistulae;SS=Scriptores;SSMer.=ScriptoresrerumMerowingicarum;
SSLang.etItal.=ScriptoresrerumLangobardicarumetItalicarumsaec.VI–XI).
PIB S.Cosentino,Prosopografiadell’Italiabizantina,I-II.Bologna–.
PLRE TheProsopographyoftheLaterRomanEmpire,editedbyJ.R.Martindale.III/A-B,
Cambridge.
Variae CassiodoriVariae,ediditTh.Mommsen,inMGH,AA,XII,Berolini,pp.–.
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