Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and

Influence, c. 700–1453

Edited by Magdalena Skoblar

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Foreword by Judith Herrin

Introduction by Magdalena Skoblar

Chapter 1
The Adriatic Sea 500–1100: A Corrupted Alterity?
Richard Hodges

Chapter 2
A Winter Sea? Exchange and Power at the Ebbing of the Adriatic Connection 600–800
Francesco Borri

Chapter 3
The Origins of Venice: between Italy, Byzantium and the Adriatic
Stefano Gasparri

Chapter 4
The Northern Adriatic Area between the Eighth and the Ninth Century: New Landscapes,
New Cities
Sauro Gelichi

Chapter 5
Provincia Iadrensis: Heir of Roman Dalmatia or a Still-Born Child of Byzantine Early
Medieval Adriatic Policy?
Trpimir Vedriš

Chapter 6
Ravenna and Other Early Rivals of Venice: Comparative Urban and Economic Development
in the Upper Adriatic c.751–1050
Thomas S. Brown

Chapter 7
Byzantine Apulia
Jean-Marie Martin

Chapter 8
From One Coast to Another and Beyond: Adriatic Connections through the Sigillographic
Evidence
Pagona Papadopoulou

Chapter 9
Icons in the Adriatic before the Sack of Constantinople in 1204
Magdalena Skoblar

Chapter 10
Thinking of Linking: Pottery Connections, Southern Adriatic, Butrint and Beyond
Joanita Vroom

Chapter 11
The Rise of the Adriatic in the Age of the Crusades
Peter Frankopan

Chapter 12
Venice in the Twelfth Century: between the Adriatic and the Aegean
Michael Angold

Chapter 13
Venice, the Ionian Sea and the Southern Adriatic after the Fourth Crusade
Guillaume Saint-Guillain

Chapter 14
Sea Power and the Evolution of Venetian Crusading
Christopher Wright

Chapter 15
Reassessing the Venetian Presence in the Late Medieval Eastern Adriatic
Oliver Jens Schmitt

Chapter 16
‘Strangers’ in the City? The Paradoxes of Communitarianism in Fifteenth-Century Venice
Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan

Conclusion by Chris Wickham