The cities of Byzantine Italy: some items for the research agenda

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Published: Dec 15, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/47
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Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, Italy, Byzantium, Towns

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Enrico Zanini
Università degli Studi di Siena

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In the literature debate concerning the Italian cities in the period from late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages the ‘Byzantine variable’ deserves a particular position. The relevant role of the proto-Byzantine Mediterranean’s permanence in the administrative, social, economic and cultural system during the transformation of many urban centres needs a new analysis and evaluation. Such a remark calls for a critical re-thinking of many traditional issues and the reappraisal of a methodology for new interpretative models which can better fit the complexity of the phenomenon which is going to be investigated.

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Zanini, Enrico. 2010. “The Cities of Byzantine Italy: Some Items for the Research Agenda”. Reti Medievali Journal 11 (2), 45-66. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/47.
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Vol 11 No 2 (2010)
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Essayes in Monographic Section
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