Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000

A comparative and interdisciplinary study, Rome, Ravenna, and Venice explores how three cities preserved and remoulded their common Byzantine past. It sheds light on how far these societies were the heirs of the Empire and how they imagined a new part-Roman, part-Italian identity in the centuries after their imperial links were severed.

Veronica West-Harling is a Research Associate of the History Faculty at the University Oxford and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Università Ca'Foscari in Venice. She has studied at the Paris IV-Sorbonne, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. She began her professional career as a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford, where she won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, later becoming a lecturer in Durham and Wales and a Senior Lecturer at Northampton. In 2011, together with Chris Wickham, she received an AHRC grant for 3 years, of which 9 months were spent in Italy as a Visiting Fellow in Venice and at Roma La Sapienza. In 2015 she won a Marie Curie Fellowship, which supports her current role in Venice.