Publication

2013 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Language

English

Word Count

46,000 words, Guess

Page Count

184 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCDG55.L5 B35 2013

Description

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

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Dark Age LiguriaBloomsbury Publishing PLC2013-01-01

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