拉韦纳：帝国首都，欧洲熔炉 Ravenna : Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 576 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN:9780241954454

Published:28 Oct 2021

Weight:442g

Dimensions:135 x 196 x 36 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

公元402年，在入侵的部落突破了意大利的阿尔卑斯山边境并威胁到米兰的帝国政府后，年轻的皇帝霍诺里斯做出了一个重要的决定，将他的首都迁到波河口的一个易守难攻的小城市 ——拉韦纳。从那时起到公元751年，拉韦纳首先是西罗马帝国的首都，然后是哥特人Theoderic的巨大王国的首都，后来是拜占庭在意大利的权力中心。

在这本引人入胜的书中，朱迪思·赫林解释了学者、律师、医生、工匠和宇宙学家是如何被吸引到拉韦纳的，他们在那里创造了一个主宰意大利北部和亚得里亚海的文化和政治首都。随着她对拉韦纳的统治者、编年史家和居民生活的追踪，赫林展示了这座城市如何成为东方和西方之间的枢纽；以及希腊和拉丁文化的交汇处。该书对罗马的衰落、哥特人和伦巴第人的入侵、文化的兴起以及不同文化内部的破坏性分裂作了全新的描述。该书认为，第五至第八世纪不应该被看作是古代的衰落时期，而是由于拜占庭的存在，被看作是具有巨大创造力的时期——这几个世纪是欧洲的形成期。

虽然拉韦纳的宫殿已经坍塌，但它的教堂却保存了下来。在这些教堂里，天主教罗马人和阿里安哥特人争先恐后地制作了大量壮观的马赛克作品，其中许多作品至今仍令游客感到惊讶。《拉韦纳：帝国首都，欧洲熔炉》配有精美的插图和特别委托的照片，并借鉴了新的考古学和文献发现。《拉韦纳：帝国首都，欧洲熔炉》通过这座令人眼花缭乱的城市的历史，将中世纪早期的生活展现在读者面前。

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 751 AD, Ravenna was first the capital of the Western Roman Empire, then that of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the Goth and finally the centre of Byzantine power in Italy.

In this engrossing account Judith Herrin explains how scholars, lawyers, doctors, craftsmen, cosmologists and religious luminaries were drawn to Ravenna where they created a cultural and political capital that dominated northern Italy and the Adriatic. As she traces the lives of Ravenna's rulers, chroniclers and inhabitants, Herrin shows how the city became the pivot between East and West; and the meeting place of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian cultures. The book offers a fresh account of the waning of Rome, the Gothic and Lombard invasions, the rise of Islam and the devastating divisions within Christianity. It argues that the fifth to eighth centuries should not be perceived as a time of decline from antiquity but rather, thanks to Byzantium, as one of great creativity - the period of 'Early Christendom'. These were the formative centuries of Europe.

While Ravenna's palaces have crumbled, its churches have survived. In them, Catholic Romans and Arian Goths competed to produce an unrivalled concentration of spectacular mosaics, many of which still astonish visitors today. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, and drawing on the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe brings the early Middle Ages to life through the history of this dazzling city.

作者简介

朱迪思·赫林因其在中世纪早期地中海世界的开创性工作，特别是拜占庭的作用和妇女的重要性，于2016年获得海尼根历史奖（"荷兰诺贝尔奖"）。她是《拜占庭》的作者。《一个中世纪帝国的惊人生活》、《中世纪杂记》和《紫色的女人》。赫林曾在伯明翰、巴黎、慕尼黑、Istanbul和普林斯顿工作过，后来成为伦敦国王学院的晚期古代和拜占庭研究教授，直到2008年，她现在是古典学系的Constantine Leventis访问高级研究员。她曾在希腊、塞浦路斯和土耳其进行发掘，并在《过去和现在》杂志的编辑部工作了30年。

Judith Herrin won the Heineken Prize for History (the 'Dutch Nobel Prize') in 2016 for her pioneering work on the early Medieval Mediterranean world, especially the role of Byzantium, the influence of Islam and the significance of women. She is the author of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, The Formation of Christendom, A Medieval Miscellany and Women in Purple. Herrin worked in Birmingham, Paris, Munich, Istanbul and Princeton before becoming Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London until 2008, where she is now the Constantine Leventis Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Classics. She has excavated in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, and served for thirty years on the editorial board of Past and Present.