Dark Age Liguria regional identity and local power, c. 400-1050 Ross Balzaretti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balzaretti, Ross, author.

Series:

Studies in early medieval history.

Studies in early medieval history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regionalism--Italy--Liguria--History--To 1500.

Regionalism.

Antiquities.

Politics and government.

Liguria (Italy)--History.

Liguria (Italy).

Liguria (Italy)--Politics and government.

Liguria (Italy)--Antiquities.

Liguria (Italy)--History, Local.

Genoa (Italy)--History--To 1339.

Genoa (Italy).

Vara River Valley (Italy)--History.

Vara River Valley (Italy).

Italy--History--476-1268.

Italy.

Italy--Genoa.

Italy--Liguria.

Italy--Vara River Valley.

Genre:

History.

Local history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Historical ecology : from prehistoric to early medieval in the Ligurian Apennines

Villas, villages and castra : from Roman to medieval settlement

Regional identities : political and religious change

Genoa : centre and periphery

Vara Valley : at the margins?

Epilogue: A Dark Age?

Appendix: Key dates

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 11 April 2020).

ISBN:

9781780934006

1780934009

9781472555649

1472555643

9781472517111

1472517113

9781472517104

1472517105

OCLC:

857070526