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Paolo Squatriti, associate professor of history and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, is author of Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy AD 400-1000 and editor of Natures Past: The Environment and Human History.
Presenting an English translation of the literary compositions ascribed to Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona from 962 to 972, this work offers insight into society and culture in western Europe during the iron century. It reveals European attitudes toward the Byzantine Empire and the culture of its refined capital city.