vi contents
10 Urban Life and Culture 234
Deborah M. Deliyannis
11 Landowning and Labour in the Rural Economy 263
Cam Grey
12 The Heroine and the Historian: Procopius of Caesarea on the
Troubled Reign of Queen Amalasuentha 296
Kate Cooper
13 Intellectual Culture and Literary Practices 316
Natalia Lozovsky
14 Art and Architecture 350
Mark J. Johnson
15 Barbarizing the Bel Paese: Environmental History in Ostrogothic
Italy 390
Paolo Squatriti
part 3
Religion
16 The Roman Church and its Bishops 425
Kristina Sessa
17 Bishops, Ecclesiastical Institutions, and the Ostrogothic Regime 451
Rita Lizzi Testa
18 Mapping the Church and Asceticism in Ostrogothic Italy 480
Rita Lizzi Testa
19 Religious Diversity 503
Samuel Cohen
Glossary of Select Sources 533
Index 542