Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis . Ravenna in Late Antiquity . New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. Pp. xix, 444. $95.00.
Michele Renee Salzman
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis has provided an up‐to‐date, comprehensive, synthetic study of Ravenna, one the most important cities late antique and early medieval Europe. Ravenna rose to prominence in fifth century as residence western emperors, Gothic kings, Byzantine governors Italy. It is justly famous for its surviving monuments intricately wrought mosaics churches like Saint Apollinare Nuovo S. Vitale. Part importance this light author sheds on a city that preserved presence Italy ways no longer visible Rome or other cities. The history been strangely overlooked by scholarship English. status fourth through sixth centuries contributed part lacuna, though became sedes imperii, seat of...
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