A Tale of Three Cities
Veronica West-Harling
After a brief recall of Italian history from late antiquity to 750, this chapter provides city-by-city the end Exarchate 1000. The Rome follows Lombard crises and Byzantine rule, Frankish/Carolingian domination, events Kingdom Italy, aristocratic attempted Ottonian control over city. Ravenna’s three narrative strands are aftermath autocephaly conflict, anti-papal policies most archbishops throughout then Carolingian period, lastly renewed prestige city under emperors. For Venice, origins (imagined probable) city, its succession ducal families, attempt always create balance between official dependence grounding in north Adriatic space
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