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Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154.

This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy. Together, the contributors present a new critique of power that sustained both kingship and locally based elite networks throughout the Italian peni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heath, Christopher
Otros Autores: Houghton, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Colección:Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ; 3
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Epitome chronicorum Casinensium: A First Survey
  • Sex, Denigration and Violence at the Court of Louis II of Italy (844-875)
  • The Episode
  • A Biblical Model and Its Meaning
  • Where the Struggle Took Place
  • The Ordeal by Fire: Legislation and Narrative of the Proof of Truthfulness
  • Competition for Power and Political Struggle Among the Proceres Regni: Supponids vs Hucpoldings
  • A Queen and a Count Palatine of the Italian Kingdom
  • The iudiciaria Mutinensis and Boniface's Career
  • The Supponinds as Antagonists in Emilia
  • Louis II's Fiscal Policy Towards Queen Angelberga
  • Talking and Writing About Violent 'Saracens'
  • Christian 'Counterviolence'
  • Impacts and Consequences
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • About the Author
  • 6. Formosus and the 'Synod of the Corpse'
  • Tenth Century Rome in History and Memory*
  • David Barritt
  • Bad Ritual
  • Episcopal transfer
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • About the Author
  • 7. Sex, Denigration and Violence
  • A Representation of Political Competition between Two Aristocratic Families in Ninth Century Italy
  • Edoardo Manarini
  • About the Author
  • 3. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Lombard Italy (c600-700)*
  • Guido M. Berndt
  • Lombards Entering Italy
  • Insurgencies During the 'Warlord-decade'
  • Droctulf of Brescello: From Lombard Dux to Byzantine Hypostrategos
  • The Rise of the Lombard Kingdom: Flavius rex Authari
  • Insurgencies During the Reign of Agilulf
  • Insurgencies During the Time of Adaloald and Arioald
  • Insurgencies During the Reign of Rothari
  • Grimoald in a Lombard 'Game of Thrones'
  • Paul the Deacon's Prototype/Prefiguration of an Insurgent: Alahis, filius iniquitatis
  • Conclusion
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Discordant Minds and Hostile Nations
  • Christopher Heath and Robert Houghton
  • The State of the Field
  • This Volume
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • About the Authors
  • 2. Morbidity and Murder
  • Lombard Kingship's Violent Uncertainties 568-774
  • Christopher Heath
  • Law and Authority in Lombard Italy: The Historical Inheritance
  • The Space for Lombard Kingship
  • Alboin, Perctarit and Liutprand: Violence and Murder in the Court
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources