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Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship - Labour, Culture, and the Economy (Hardcover)
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Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship - Labour, Culture, and the Economy (Hardcover)
Series: Millennium Studien/Millennium Studies
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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 intellectual - as well as the structure of
production and objects derived from manufacturing activities,
despite the fact that Ravenna is the place which preserves the
highest number of historical evidence among all centres of the late
Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite,
ranging from papyri to inscriptions, from ivories to marbles, as
well as luxury objects, pottery, and coins. Starting from concrete
typologies of hand-manufactured goods existing in the Ravennate
milieu, the book aims at exploring the multifaceted traditions of
late antique and early Byzantine handicraft from the fourth to the
eighth century AD. Its perspective is to pay attention more on
patronage, social taste, acculturation, workers and the economic
industry of production which supported the demand, circulation and
distribution of artefacts, than on the artistic evaluation of the
objects themselves.
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