Dark Age Liguria : Regional Identity and Local Power, c. 400–1020
Ross Balzaretti
Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of region from c. 400 to 1050 AD, provide a detailed case study what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north much they gazed out sea. Genoese under Byzantines, Lombards, Carolingians Ottonians is compared that other coastal settlements, including Albenga, Noli, Perti Savona less-studied but fascinating inland valleys, Aveto, Polcevera, Stura Vara. draws also on more than fifteen years fieldwork around small town Varese Ligure (La Spezia province) suggest some new methods for investigating past.