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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and notes on bibliography -- Maps -- 1 Introduction: Circles overlapping in the Upper Adriatic -- Part I The Franks move east -- 2 The Treaty of Aachen: How many empires? -- 3 Aemulatio imperii and the south-eastern frontier of the Carolingian world -- 4 Imperial politics and its regional consequences: Istria between Byzantium and the Franks 788-812 -- Part II Byzantium in turmoil -- 5 A resurgent empire? Byzantium in the early 800s -- 6 Franks and Bulgars in the first half of the ninth century -- 7 Dangerous neighbours: The Treaty of Aachen and the defeat of Nikephoros I by the Bulgars in 811 -- Part III Circles overlapping in the northern Adriatic -- 8 Aachen, Venice and archaeology -- 9 Patriarchs as patrons: The attribution of the ciboria in Santa Maria delle Grazie at Grado -- 10 Holding the Aquileian patriarchate's title: The key role of local early-ninth-century hagiography -- Part IV Dalmatia: The land in between -- 11 Post-Roman Dalmatia: Collapse and regeneration of a complex social system -- 12 One more Renaissance? Dalmatia and the revival of the European economy -- Part V Pannonia beneath the surface -- 13 What did the Treaty of Aachen do for the peoples of the Carpathian basin? -- 14 Lower Pannonia before and after the Treaty of Aachen -- 15 Changing political landscapes in the ninth-century central Carpathian basin: Interpreting recent settlement excavation data -- Part VI The church between Rome and Constantinople -- 16 Rome and the heritage of ancient Illyricum in the ninth century -- 17 Dalmatian bishops at the Council of Nicaea in 787 and the status of the Dalmatian church in the eighth and ninth centuries