List of Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

Gian Pietro Brogiolo

City and Territory in Hispania in Late Antiquity

Pablo C. Diaz

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

Michel Fixot

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

Gisela Ripoll

Javier Arce

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

Sauro Gelichi

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

Wolfram Brandes

John Haldon

Le reseau de pouvoirs de l'eveque dans la Gaule du haut Moyen-Age

Nancy Gauthier

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

Gisella Cantino Wataghin

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

Ross Balzaretti

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

Martina Caroli

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

Neil Christie

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

Gian Pietro Brogiolo

Constantinople: A City and its Ideological Territory

Bryan Ward-Perkins

Artistic Patronage and Cultural Strategies in Lombard Italy

John Mitchell

Conclusions

Nancy Gauthier

Index