Towns and their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / / edited by Brogiolo, N. Gauthier, N. Christie.

• Superior document: Transformation of the Roman World ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Brogiolo,; Christie, N.,; Gauthier, N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Transformation of the Roman World ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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. Díaz, 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations -- Introduction Gian Pietro Brogiolo -- City and Territory in Hispania in Late antiquity Pabli C. Diaz -- La cite et son territoire: l'exemple du Sud-Est de la Gaule Michel Fixot -- The Transformation and End of roman Villae in the West (Fourth-Seventh Centuries: problems and Perspectives) Gisela Ripoll and Javier Arce -- Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Early Medieval Mediterranean Basin (Seventh to Tenth Centuries AD): Between Town and Countryside Sauro Gelichi -- Towns, Tax and Transformation: Sate, Cities and their Hinterlands in the East Roman World, c.500-800 Wolfram Brandes and John Haldon -- Le reseau de pouvoirs de l'eveque dans la Gaule du haut Moyen-Age Nancy Gauthier -- Christianisaition et organisation ecclesiastique des campagnes : l'Italie du Nord aux Ive-VIIe siecles Gisella Cautino Wataghin -- Monasteries, Towns and the Countryside : Reciprocal Relationships in the Archdiocese of Milan, 614-814 Ross Balzaretti -- Bringing Saints to Cities and Monasteries: Translationes in the Making of a Sacred Geography (Ninth-Tenth Centuries) Martina Caroli -- Towns, Lands and Power: German-Roman Survivals and Interactions in fifth- and Sixth-Century Pannonia Neil Christie -- Towns, Forts and the Countryside: Archaeological Models for northern Italy in the Early Lombard Period (AD 568-650) Gian Pietro Brogiolo -- Constantinople: A City and its Ideological Territory Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Artistic Patronage and Cultural Strategies in Lombard Italy John Mitchell -- Conclusions Nancy Gauthier -- Index.