Dark Age Liguria : regional identity and local power, c. 400-1050 /
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| Author / Creator: | Balzaretti, Ross. |
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| Imprint: | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. |
| Description: | 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in early medieval history Studies in early medieval history. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9126502 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 184 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780930305 1780930305 9781472517104 9781472517111 |
