Dark Age Liguria : Regional Identity and Local Power, c. 400-1020 (Studies in Early Medieval History)

Balzaretti, Ross

Bloomsbury Academic（2013/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781780930305
• DDC分類 945.18

Full Description

Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from c. 400 to c. 1050 AD, to provide a detailed case study of what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north as much as they gazed out to sea. Genoese history under Byzantines, Lombards, Carolingians and Ottonians is compared with that of other coastal settlements, including Albenga, Noli, Perti and Savona and the less-studied but fascinating inland valleys, the Aveto, Polcevera, Stura and Vara. The book draws also on more than fifteen years of fieldwork in and around the small town of Varese Ligure (La Spezia province) to suggest some new methods for investigating the Dark Age past.

Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Maps
Figures
Introduction: Historical Ecology
Villas, Castra and Villages
Political Change and Social Organization
Genoa: central place?
Vara Valley: at the margins?
Conclusion
Appendix
Chronology
Select Bibliography
Index, including inventory of sites