Introduction: Italy and the East Roman world, 476-1204 / Bryan Ward-Perkins
Cassiodorus and the reluctant provinciales of Dalmatia / Cristina La Rocca
Procopius of Caesarea in Renaissance Italy / Brian Croke
Ambrosio de Morales and the Codex Vetustissimus Ovetensis / Roger Collins
Constructing the enemy: Byzantium in Paul the Deacon / Eduardo Fabbro
Travels of an exarch: Smaragdus and the Anastasian Walls / Jim Crow
Remarks on the sociocultural and religious history of early Byzantine Ravenna in the light of epigraphic and archival evidence / Alessandro Bazzocchi
Exarchs and others: secular patrons of churches in the sixth to eighth centuries / Deborah M. Deliyannis
The exarchate, the empire, and the elites: some comparative remarks / John Haldon
Bishops and merchants: the economy of Ravenna at the beginnings of the Middle Ages / Enrico Cirelli
Renovatio, continuity, innovation: Ravenna's role in legitimation and collective Mmemory (8th-9th centuries) / Nicole Jantzen-Lopez
Thomas Morosini, first Latin patriarch of Constantinople, and the Ravenna connection / Michael Angold
Dux to Episcopus: from ruling cities to controlling sees in Byzantine Italy, 554-900 / Edward M. Schoolman
The Duke of Istria, the Roman past, and the Frankish present / Francesco Borri
Hegemony, elitedom and ethnicity: Armenians in imperial Bari, 874-1071 / Nicholas S. M. Matheou
What was wrong with bishops in sixth-century southern Italy? / Patricia Skinner
Before the Venetians? evidence for slave trading out of Italy, 489-751 / Thomas J. MacMaster
Urban life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan compared / Ross Balzaretti
A dance to the music of time: Greeks and Latins in Medieval Taranto / Vera von Falkenhausen
The study of empire and cities in the Medieval Mediterranean: personal reflections and conclusions / Thomas S. Brown.