Table Of Contents:

List of Abbreviations vii

List of Illustrations ix

List of Contributors xv
Introduction 1(2)

Gian Pietro Brogiolo

City and Territory in Hispania in Late Antiquity 3(34)

Pablo C. Diaz

La cite et son territoire: l'exemple du Sud-Est de la Gaule 37(26)

Michel Fixot

The Transformation and End of Roman Villae in the West (Fourth-Seventh Centuries: Problems and Perspectives) 63(52)

Gisela Ripoll

Javier Arce

Ceramic Production and Distribution in the Early Medieval Mediterranean Basin (Seventh to Tenth Centuries AD): Between Town and Countryside 115(26)

Sauro Gelichi

Towns, Tax and Transformation: State, Cities and their Hinterlands in the East Roman World, c. 500--800 141(32)

Wolfram Brandes

John Haldon

Le reseau de pouvoirs de l'eveque dans la Gaule du haut Moyen-Age 173(36)

Nancy Gauthier

Christianisation et organisation ecclesiastique des campagnes: l'Italie du Nord aux IVe-VIIIe siecles 209(26)

Gisella Cantino Wataghin

Monasteries, Towns and the Countryside: Reciprocal Relationships in the Archdiocese of Milan, 614--814 235(24)

Ross Balzaretti

Bringing Saints to Cities and Monasteries: Translationes in the Making of a Sacred Geography (Ninth-Tenth Centuries) 259(16)

Martina Caroli

Towns, Lands and Power: German-Roman Survivals and Interactions in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Pannonia 275(24)

Neil Christie

Towns, Forts and the Countryside: Archaeological Models for Northern Italy in the Early Lombard Period (AD 568--650) 299(26)

Gian Pietro Brogiolo

Constantinople: A City and its Ideological Territory 325(22)

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Artistic Patronage and Cultural Strategies in Lombard Italy 347(24)

John Mitchell
Conclusions 371(16)

Nancy Gauthier
Index 387