Ravenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751
AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrogothic kings, and Byzantine …

In this book, McEvoy addresses the remarkable phenomenon of the Roman child-emperor.
During the late fourth century the emperor Valentinian I, recovering from a life-threatening …

This book provides a new interpretation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the" barbarian"
kingdom known conventionally as Ostrogothic Italy. Relying primarily on Italian textual and …

This book offers an overview of the archaeological and structural evidence for one of the
most vital periods of Italian history, spanning the late Roman and early medieval periods …

The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its
foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the original Rome as the …

1. Giuseppe A. Guattani, Memorie enciclopediche sulle antichità e belle arti di Roma (Rome:
Stampa Romana, 1819), vol. 2, table 7, shows that excavations during the early nineteenth …

Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once
glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western …

City of Saints explores how Byzantine Rome naturalized saints from throughout the
Mediterranean world to build a new sacred topography. As a result, an exhausted city with a …

The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the
state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two …

Abstract How did a Late Roman emperor stay on the throne? His position was always
precarious, and in contrast to a modern hereditary monarch he could always lose power or …