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The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval Texts in Translation)
This translation makes this fascinating text accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience. A substantial introduction to Agnellus and his composition of the text is included along with a full bibliography
Ravenna
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary: Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was first the capital of the Western Roman Empire, then that of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the Goth, and finally the centre of Byzantine power in Italy. In this engrossing account Judith Herrin explains how scholars, lawyers, doctors, craftsmen, cosmologists and religious luminaries were drawn to Ravenna where they created a cultural and political capital that dominated northern Italy and the Adri...
The Nothing That Is
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Ravenna Gets
Tony Burgess has been experimenting with apocalypse fiction in numerous earlier works: the language/speech virus in 'Pontypool', the enigmatic small world in the big world of Caesarea, and other less elaborate speculations. News coverage of the fall of Baghdad and its aftermath were the inspiration for 'Ravenna,' especially the smaller stories of people being killed suddenly in their homes in the middle of otherwise normal days. Each story in 'Ravenna Gets' begins as any novel might,but abruptly loses the luxury of becoming a novel through a seemingly random and violent intrusion from beyond the world established by the story. The effect is intended to be that of the experience of war as the...
Ravenna in Late Antiquity: AD; 7. Ravenna capital: 600-850 AD
A comprehensive survey of Ravenna's history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works.
This Is Not the Way We Came In
Flash fictions and a flash novel in the brilliant Scroggins style - he compresses worlds with words that have hallucinatory precision in stories that expand in your mind, not on the page.
Ravenna
A tale of two cities : Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rule / Peter Heather -- Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century Ravenna / Deborah M. Deliyannis -- Production, promotion, and reception : the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Maria Cristina Carile -- Ravenna in the sixth century : the archaeology of change / Carola Jäggi -- The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of Justinian / Yari A. Marano -- Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory : the papyri evidence / Salvatore Cosentino -- A striking evolution : the mint of Ravenna during the early Middle Ages / Vivie...
