Year: 2010
Author: Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
Genre: History and culture of late antiquity / History and culture of the Western Roman Empire / History and culture of early Christianity
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 978-0-521-83672-2
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 444
The book offers a comprehensive review of the history of Ravenna and its cultural monuments of late antiquity, including a description of archaeological discoveries, as well as new interpretations of artwork.
Ravenna was one of the most important cities in Europe in the late-antique period. Between 400 and 751 the city was the center of political, economic and cultural life of the Western Roman Empire, in which successively there were residences of emperors, Ostrogothic kings, Byzantine governors in Italy. During this 350-year period, the city has steadily increased and replenished with remarkable works of art and architecture, many of which have survived to this day. Accordingly, Ravenna and its monuments are of particular importance for understanding the history and culture of late antiquity.
List of Illustrations……………………X
List of Tables………………………XV
Preface…………………………….XVII
Abbreviations………………………XIX
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION………………………….1
Ravenna Capital?...................................................1
History of Scholarship on Ravenna……………….5
Some Archaeological Considerations………………13
Ravenna and the Historiography of Late Antique Art and Architecture ………..15
CHAPTER TWO
ROMAN RAVENNA………………………..21
The Origins of Ravenna …………………………21
The Republican City………………….24
Classe: The Roman Imperial Harbor and Fleet…………….26
The City of Ravenna in the Roman Empire………………….31
A Third- and Fourth-Century Crisis?................................35
Ravenna's Christian Origins………………………38
CHAPTER THREE
RAVENNA AND THE WESTERN EMPERORS, AD 400-489 …………. 41
The Last Century of the Western Roman Empire ………………. 41
Moving the Capital to Ravenna…………………….46
Ravenna as a Capital…………………………..48
Ravenna as a sedes imperii…………………..49
The City Walls o f Ravenna……………………52
The Watercourses …………………….54
The Palace(s)…………………………55
Other Public Buildings………………….58
Churches ……………………………….60
Churches in the Honorian Period……………..61
Galla Placidia's Churches……………………62
San Giovanni Evangelists …………………….63
Santa Croce…………………………..70
The “Mausoleum of Galla Placidia"……………….74
The Rise of the Church of Ravenna…………………84
The Cathedral…………………………85
The Orthodox Baptistery…………………….88
The Episcopal Palace…………………………100
Other Episcopal Church Foundations……………………101
The Elnd of Imperial Ravenna…………………….104
CHAPTER FOUR
RAVENNA THE CAPITAL OF THE OSTROGOTHIC KINGDOM………………….106
Theoderic and Italy………………………..108
Theoderic's Ravenna …………….114
Theoderic’s Palaces………………119
Theoderic's Other Secular Constructions……………………..122
The Mausoleum of Theoderic……………………124
The Ostrogothic Kingdom after Theoderic to 540…………………….136
CHAPTER FIVE
RELIGION IN OSTROGOTHIC RAVENNA……………………..139
Arianism and the Goths……………………….139
Sant'Apollinare Nuovo…………………………146
Mosaics…………………………..152
Santo Spirito (the Arian Cathedral)……………………….174
The Arian Baptistery…………………….177
The Orthodox Church in Ostrogodiic Ravenna…………………187
The Captlla Arcivescovile…………………….188
The Early Sixth-Century Churches of Classe…………………..196
The Orthodox Church after Theoderic……………………….198
CHAPTER SIX
RAVENNA'S EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD 540-600…………………… 201
The Environment and Italian Utbanism……………………….203
The Byzantine Reconquest and the Lombards…………………..204
The Establishment of a Byzantine Administration………………..206
The Archbishops of Ravenna………………………..209
The Cathedral and the Episcopal Throne …………………….213
Church Building ……………………….219
Church Building in the City of Ravenna……………………..221
Santa Maria Maggiore…………………….222
San Vitale…………………………223
San Michele in Africisco………………….250
St. Stephen…………………….255
Other Churthes………………………256
Church Building in Classe………………………..257
St. Probus, St. Eleuchadius, and St, Euphemia ad mare………………258
Sant'Apollinare in Classe…………………….259
San Severo……………………………274
CHAPTER SEVEN
RAVENNA CAPITAL AD 600-850………………………..277
Ravenna, Capital of the Byzantine Exarchate…………………..278
Archbishops and Popes: The Autocephaly Question………………….283
After the Exarchate…………………………………284
Ravenna's Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Elite…………………….286
The Environment and Urban Life…………………………288
Aftermath: Ravenna, Agnellus, and the Carolingians…………………295
Appendix: Tables………………………..301
Notes…………………………..309
References…………………………….397
Index………………………….435
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