Before the Normans : Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.

Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquest.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press 1996.
Temas:
535-1268
Social conditions.
Italy, Southern > History > 535-1268.
Italy, Southern > Social conditions.
Mezzogiorno (Italie) > Histoire > 535-1268.
Mezzogiorno (Italie) > Conditions sociales.
Southern Italy.
Electronic resource.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Beginnings
  • The Sixth to Eighth Centuries
  • Arichis and Charlemagne
  • Southern Italy in the Early Ninth Century
  • 2. The First Arab Impact
  • The Road to Arab Mercenaries
  • The Pactum Sicardi
  • Fragmentation: Naples and Amalfi, Benevento and Salerno
  • 846: The Arab Sack of Rome
  • Lothar, Louis, and the 849 Divisio
  • 3. A Carolingian Crusade
  • Louis II: The Politics of Failure
  • The Arabs
  • The Arabs in Southern Italy: Perception and Reality.
  • 4. Firming the Elements
  • Pope John VIII: A Dream Denied
  • Campania and Its Arabs
  • Byzantium Redux
  • The New Political Configuration
  • The Autonomous States
  • 5. Amalfi in Context
  • Signs of Change: 902 and 915
  • The Rise of Amalfi
  • Open Doors: Trading with the Arab World
  • The Jews of Southern Italy
  • Why Amalfi?
  • The Structures of Amalfitan Trade
  • 6. Salerno's Southern Italy in the Tenth Century
  • The Sources for Salerno
  • The Scene Through the 960s
  • Otto the Great in Southern Italy
  • Moving Toward Opulentia
  • 7. The Late Tenth Century and South Italian Structures.
  • Growth or Development?
  • The Ottonian Effect
  • Religion
  • Legal Structures and Their Implications
  • Servitude and Demographics
  • Incastellamento
  • The Evolution of Standards
  • 8. Campania and Its Culture in the Tenth Century
  • The Quality of Life
  • ""Beneventan"" Culture
  • The Mediterranean Environment and Medicine at Salerno
  • Campania and Its Tenth-Century Ethos
  • The Beginning of the End
  • 9. Epilogue: The Eleventh Century and After
  • The Byzantine Overlay
  • The Fate of the Autonomous States
  • The South Italian Legacy
  • Notes
  • Appendix: The Southern Lombard Rulers, 758-1000.

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