Ravenna in Late Antiquity

Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 9
LIST OF TABLES......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 16
ABBREVlATlONS......Page 18
Ravenna Capital?......Page 20
Premodern Historiography......Page 24
Modern Historiography of Ravenna......Page 28
Some Archaeological Considerations......Page 32
Ravenna and the Historiography of Late Antique Art and Architecture......Page 34
The Origins of Ravenna......Page 40
The Republican City......Page 43
Classe: The Roman Imperial Harbor and Fleet......Page 45
The City of Ravenna in the Roman Empire......Page 49
A Third- and Fourth-Century Crisis?......Page 54
Ravenna's Christian Origins......Page 57
The Last Century of the Western Roman Empire......Page 60
Moving the Capital to Ravenna......Page 65
Ravenna as a Capital......Page 67
Ravenna as a sedes imperii......Page 68
The City Walls of Ravenna......Page 71
The Watercourses......Page 73
The Palace(s)......Page 74
Other Public Buildings......Page 77
Churches......Page 79
Churches in the Honorian Period......Page 80
Galla Placidia's Churches......Page 81
SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA......Page 82
SANTA CROCE......Page 89
THE 'MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA'......Page 93
The Rise of the Church of Ravenna
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THE CATHEDRAL......Page 104
THE ORTHODOX BAPTISTERY......Page 107
THE EPISCOPAL PALACE......Page 119
OTHER EPISCOPAL CHURCH FOUNDATIONS
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The End of Imperial Ravenna......Page 123
CHAPTER FOUR: RAVENNA, THE CAPITAL OF THE OSTROGOTHIC KINGDOM......Page 125
Theoderic and Italy......Page 127
Theoderic's Ravenna......Page 133
Theoderic's Palaces......Page 138
Theoderic's Other Secular Constructions......Page 141
The Mausoleum of Theoderic......Page 143
The Ostrogothic Kingdom after Theoderic to 540......Page 155
Arianism and the Goths......Page 158
Sant'Apollinare Nuovo......Page 165
Mosaics......Page 171
The Christological Cycle......Page 172
Christ and the Virgin......Page 177
The palatium and Classe......Page 179
The Procession of Saints......Page 183
What Was Originally There to Be Replaced?......Page 190
The Head of Justinian?
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Santo Spirito (the Arian Cathedral)......Page 193
The Arian Baptistery......Page 196
The Orthodox Church in Ostrogothic Ravenna......Page 206
The Capella Arcivescovile......Page 207
The Early Sixth-Century Churches of Classe......Page 215
The Orthodox Church after Theoderic......Page 217
CHAPTER SIX: RAVENNA'S EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD, AD 540-600......Page 220
The Environment and Italian Urbanism......Page 222
The Byzantine Reconquest and the Lombards......Page 223
PLATES......Page 224
The Establishment of a Byzantine Administration......Page 233
The Archbishops of Ravenna......Page 236
The Cathedral and the Episcopal Throne......Page 240
Church Building......Page 246
Church Building in the City of Ravenna......Page 248
SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE......Page 249
SAN VITALE......Page 250
Architecture......Page 254
Sculpture, Marble Wall Coverings, Stucco, and Floor......Page 258
Mosaics......Page 263
The Apse......Page 264
The Presbitery......Page 270
The Overall Mosaic Program......Page 275
SAN MICHELE IN AFRICISCO......Page 277
ST.STEPHEN......Page 282
OTHER CHURCHES......Page 283
Church Building in Classe......Page 284
ST.PROBUS,ST.ELEUCHADIUS,AND ST.EUPHEMIA AD MARE......Page 285
SANT'APOLLINARE IN CLASSE......Page 286
Architecture and Sculpture......Page 288
Mosaics......Page 292
The Triumphal Arch......Page 293
Apse Vault......Page 294
Apse Window Zone......Page 297
SAN SEVERO......Page 301
CHAPTER SEVEN: RAVENNA CAPITAL, AD 600-850......Page 304
Ravenna, Capital of the Byzantine Exarchate......Page 305
Archbishops and Popes: The Autocephaly Question......Page 310
After the Exarchate......Page 311
Ravenna's Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Elite......Page 313
The Environment and Urban Life......Page 315
Aftermath : Ravenna, Agnellus, and the Carolingians......Page 322
Table 1. Roman emperors......Page 328
Table 3. Exarchs (with attested titles)......Page 329
Table 4. Lombard kings......Page 330
Table 5. Bishops of Ravenna......Page 331
Table 6. Popes......Page 332
Table 7. Dimensions of Ravenna's basilicas......Page 335
One. Introduction......Page 336
Two. Roman Ravenna......Page 338
Three. Ravenna and the Western Emperors. AD 400-489......Page 346
Four. Ravenna, the Capital of the Ostrogothic Kingdom......Page 369
Five. Religion in Ostrogothic Ravenna......Page 382
Six. Ravenna's Early Byzantine Period, AD 540-600......Page 400
Seven. Ravenna Capital, AD 600-850......Page 418
REFERENCES......Page 424
INDEX......Page 462