Imperial spheres and the Adriatic: Byzantium, the Carolingians and the Treaty of Aachen (812)
Introduction : circles overlapping in the upper Adriatic / Jonathan Shepard -- The Treaty of Aachen : how many empires? / Mladen Ancic -- Aemulatio imperii and the south-eastern frontier of the Carolingian world / Ivan Majnaric -- Imperial politics and its regional consequences : Istria between Byzantium and the Franks 788-812 / Peter Stih -- A resurgent empire? : Byzantium in the early 800s / Panos Sophoulis -- Franks and Bulgars in the first half of the ninth century / Angel Nikolov -- Dangerous neighbours : the Treaty of Aachen and the defeat of Nikephoros I by the Bulgars in 811 / Daniel Ziemann -- Aachen, Venice and archeology / Sauro Gelichi -- Patriarchs as patrons : the attribution of the Ciboria in Santa Maria delle Grazie at Grado / Magdalena Skoblar -- Holding the Aquileian patriarchate's title : the key role of local early ninth-century hagiography / Marianna Cerno -- Post-Roman Dalmatia : collapse and regeneration of a complex social system / Danijel Dzino -- One more renaissance? : Dalmatia and the revival of the European economy / Neven Budak -- What did the Treaty of Aachen do for the peoples of the Carpathian basin? / Bela Miklos Szoke -- Lower Pannonia before and after the Treaty of Aachen / Hrvoje Gracanin -- Changing political landscapes in the ninth-century central Carpathian basin : interpreting recent settlement excavation data / Miklos Takacs -- Rome and the heritage of ancient Illyricum in the ninth century / Maddalena Betti -- Dalmatian bishops at the Council of Nicaea in 787 and the status of the Dalmatian church in the eighth and ninth centuries / Predrag Komatina -- New evidence for the re-establishment of the Adriatic dioceses in the late eighth century / Ivan Basic -- Amalarius' stay in Zadar reconsidered / Trpimir Vedries.