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Explores the major political, social, economic, religious and cultural changes impacting what was once the most important region of the Roman world
The first modern research volume on a core region of Late Antiquity
A tight and distinctly chronological focus on the second quarter of the first millennium CE, that allows for a different vision of the many vicissitudes of Late Roman Italy, among other works on Ancient and Late Antique Italy.
An emphasis on one of the key features of Late Antiquity: the transformation of the Roman Empire in the West into successor polities.
A balanced range of topics, including ones rarely encountered in this type of work (such as gender or environmental history), with a special focus on political transformation and violence.
This research volume reassesses one of the most fundamental transformations in Late Antiquity, centered on a pivotal region: the transition from 'Empire' to 'Kingdom' in Italy c. 250-500. During the first quarter of the first millennium, Italy was still the heart of the Roman Empire; the only political superstructure ever managing to encompass the entire Mediterranean world and its European hinterland. Yet during the second quarter of this millennium, Italy underwent dramatic evolutions from demotion to a provincialized region (c. 285-395), to a new imperial hub kept afloat by cannibalizing other provinces' resources (c. 395-476), to an autonomous regnum governed by non-Roman rulers as part of an Eastern Roman 'Commonwealth' (c. 475-535).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Italy and Its Place in the Roman Empire of Late Antiquity
Jeroen W. P. Wijnendaele
Part I: Political Developments
1. Italy from the Crisis of the Third Century to the Tetrarchy
Umberto Roberto
2. New Paths to Power: The Bipartite Division of Italy and Its
Realignment of Society and Economy in the Fourth Century
Noel Lenski
3. Court, Crisis and Response: Italy from Gratian to Valentinian III
Mark Humphries
4. The Final Western Emperors, Odoacer and Late Roman Italy's Resilience
Jeroen W. P. Wijnendaele
Part II: Institutions
5. Administering Late Roman Italy: Geographical Changes and the
Appearance of Governors
Daniëlle Slootjes
6. How the West Was Run: Local Government in Late Roman Italy
Stuart McCunn
7. Armed Forces in Late Roman Italy
Philip Rance
Part III: Society, Economy and Environment
8. Elite Women and Gender-Based Violence in Late Roman Italy
Ulriika Vihervalli and Victoria Leonard
9. Land of the Free? Considering Smallholders and Economic Agency in
Late Antique Italy
Niels P. Arends
10. The Human Landscape and Palaeoecology of Late Roman Italy
Edward M. Schoolman
11. Cities and Urban Life in Late Roman Italy: Transformations of the Old,
Impositions of the New
Neil Christie
Part IV: Religion
12. From Local Authority to Episcopal Power: The Changing Roles of
Roman and Italian Bishops
Bronwen Neil
13. Violence and Episcopal Elections in Late Antique Rome, ad 300-00
Samuel Cohen
14. Religious Minorities in Late Roman Italy: Jewish City-Dwellers and
Their Non-Jewish Neighbours
Jessica van ' Westeinde
Part V: Culture
15. Christian Sarcophagi in Late Roman Italy: Culture and Connection
Miriam A. Hay
16. Late Roman Italy in Latin Panegyric: From the Panegyrici Latini to Ennodius
Adrastos Omissi
17. Stepping Out of the Shadows: Italy in Late Antique Historiography
Peter Van Nuffelen
Epilogue: Late Roman Italy -Paths Explored and Paths to Explore
Giusto Traina
Index
