Comacchio and the Northern Adriatic emporia during the Early Middle Ages

Ten years after “From one sea to another” Venice, Comacchio and the Northern Adriatic emporia during the Early Middle Ages

on the occasion of the publication of the book: Un emporio e la sua Cattedrale. Gli scavi di piazza XX Settembre e Villagio San Francesco a Comacchio

Venice, 19 October 2021
Complesso di San Sebastiano, Sala delle Colonne

• 9.00 Giovanni Vian, DSU Director’s Greetings
• 9.30 Sauro Gelichi, Ten years after From one sea to another: Comacchio and Venice.
• 10.00 Richard Hodges, The elephant in the room: emporia and Ian Wood’s ‘temple society’
• 10.30 Frans Theuws, The excavations in the settlement of Oegstgeest and the river based exchange systems
• 11.00 Søren Michael Sindbæk, Crafting network in emporia
• 11.30 Dries Tys, Long distance trade and local peasants: where global meets local, in Flanders between the 6th and 11th century
• 12. 00 Debate
• In the afternoon, guided tour of the Jesolo excavations

Ten Years After, Comacchio – Locandina in formato pdf.

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