Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204

by Michael Angold

Book Overview

Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula's relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, across the early and central Middle Ages.

The East Roman world, commonly known by the ahistorical term "Byzantium", is generally imagined as an Eastern Mediterranean empire, with Italy part of the medieval "West". Across 18 individually authored chapters,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138091316
• ISBN13: 9781138091313
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"