The publication of “A Companion to Byzantine Italy”, edited by Salvatore Cosentino (Series: Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, Volume 8), is scheduled for January 21st.
This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview of current research as well as new insights concerning political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the Italian regions under Byzantine rule. The methodological approach of the volume combines history with archaeology and art history, while remaining focused on the general framework of the early medieval Mediterranean. The result is a fresh and up-to-date synthesis that can be useful both for specialists and students.
The volume will be available as hardbook or PDF on BRILL.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Mapping the Memory of Byzantine Italy
Salvatore Cosentino and Enrico Zanini
Part 1: Society and Institutions
1 Politics and Society
Salvatore Cosentino
2 Ecclesiastic Life and Its Institutions
Salvatore Cosentino
3 Monastic Life and Its Institutions
Enrico Morini
4 Byzantine Administration and the Army
Vivien Prigent
5 Byzantines and Lombards The Old and the Young: Byzantium in Italy, or How It Was Condemned to Be the Representative of an Antiquated Roman Identity
Federico Marazzi
6 Byzantium and Islam in Southern Italy (7th–11th Century)
Annliese Nef
7 Greek Communities in Post-Byzantine Italy
Annick Peters-Custot
Part 2: Communications, Economy and Landscape
8 The Network of Interregional Roads and Harbours
Denis Sami
9 Rural Economy: Organization, Exploitation and Resources
Jean-Marie Martin
10 Non-Agricultural Items: Local Production, Importation and Redistribution
Enrico Zanini
11 Mints, Coin Production and Circulation
Vivien Prigent
part 3: Settlements and Landscape: Regional Morphologies
12 Venice, the Exarchate and the Pentapolis
Sauro Gelichi
13 Rome and the Roman Duchy
Alessandra Molinari
14 Byzantine Naples and Gaeta
Federico Marazzi
15 Byzantine Calabria
Ghislaine Noyé
16 Byzantine Apulia
Paul Arthur
17 Byzantine Sicily
Lucia Arcifa
18 Byzantine Sardinia
Pier Giorgio Spanu
19 Byzantine Malta
Brunella Bruno and Nathaniel Cutajar
part 4: Culture and Education
20 Greek and Latin in Byzantine Italy (6th–11th Century)
Vera von Falkenhausen
21 Bishops, Cities, and Historical Memory in Byzantine Italy
Deborah M. Deliyannis
22 Telling the Sanctity in Byzantine Italy
Mario Re
23 Devotion and Prayer in Byzantine Italy
Francesco D’Aiuto
24 Medieval Art in Italy and Byzantium (ca. 550–1050): A Viaticum
Massimo Bernabò
25 Conceiving Social Space in Byzantine Italy: Monumental Architecture and Building Typologies
Isabella Baldini
26 Literary and Book Production in Byzantine Italy
Paola Degni
27 Legal Texts and Juridical Practice in Byzantine Italy
Cristina Rognoni
Index