In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary: Ravenna. From then until 7…
In the last twenty years scholarship on late antique and early medieval Ravenna has resulted in a certain number of publications mainly focused on the fields of architecture, mosaics and archaeology. On the contrary, much less attention has been paid on labour - both manual and …
"Die Mosaiken Ravennas gehören zu den bedeutendsten Kunstwerken der Welt. Ihre Qualität und ihre Farbenpracht faszinieren seit ihrer Entstehung zwischen dem 5. und dem 7. Jh. Dieses Buch stellt die Frage nach der Bedeutung dieser Bilder, ihren Eigenarten und den Botschaften, die…
