Potere e burocrazia a Ravenna durante la tarda antichità. Il destino di una capitale imperiale
Dove
Data evento
15 Aprile 2025
During the fifth century, Rome’s political influence at times overshadowed Ravenna’s role as the ‘capital’ of the West. Nevertheless, the question arises of whether, and to what extent, the establishment of an administrative apparatus serving the court in the Adriatic city—beginning in the age of Honorius—shaped its urban history in the fifth and sixth centuries. The lecture will therefore explore the presence of the imperial bureaucracy in Ravenna and its role in shaping both its socio-economic structure and its image as an imperial city between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.