The Actors
Veronica West-Harling
This chapter is a study of the people in Ravenna and Venice. The elites (including its archbishops), as seen through their titles, status, anthroponymy, wealth, show an increasing mix old ‘exarchal’ aristocracy with new Carolingian-imported one. elite anti-papal pro-imperial, are middle ranks, merchants, artisans. Venetian actors follows families doges, then those other nobles, they all struggle each for control. Specific to Venice unusual status identical aristocratic whose wealth sourced from both land trade. While preserved strong awareness late antique heritage but gradually mixed into rest Italian politics, Venice, theoretically Byzantine allegiance, practice functioned, institutionally culturally, much like society terraferma
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