Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154 / / ed. by Christopher Heath, Robert Houghton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Balzaretti, Ross,; Barritt, David,; Berndt, Guido M.,; Borri, Francesco,; Heath, Christopher,; Houghton, Robert,; Manarini, Edoardo,; Nash, Penelope,; Veneziani, Enrico,; Wolf, Kordula,
• HerausgeberIn: Heath, Christopher,; Houghton, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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 peninsula. A broad temporal range, covering the sixth to the twelfth century, allows this book to cross a number of ‘traditional’ fault-lines in Italian historiography – 774, 888, 962 and 1025. The essays provide wide-ranging analysis of the role of conflict in the period, the operation of power and the development of communal consciousness and collective action by protagonists and groups. It is thus essential reading for scholars, students and general readers who wish to understand the situation on the ground in the medieval Italian environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction. Discordant Minds and Hostile Nations -- 2 Morbidity and Murder. Lombard Kingship’s Violent Uncertainties 568-774 -- 3 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Lombard Italy (c600-700) -- 4 Troubled Times. Narrating Conquest and Defiance between Charlemagne and Bernard (774-818) -- 5 ‘Nec patiaris populum Domini ab illis divinitus fulminandis Agarenis discerpi’ Handling ‘Saracen’ Violence in Ninth-Century Southern Italy -- 6 Formosus and the ‘Synod of the Corpse’ Tenth Century Rome in History and Memory -- 7 Sex, Denigration and Violence. A Representation of Political Competition between Two Aristocratic Families in Ninth Century Italy -- 8 ‘Italy and her [German] Invaders’ Otto III’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Early Tours of Italy – Pomp, Generosity and Ferocity -- 9 ‘I Predict a Riot’ What Were the Parmense Rebelling Against in 1037? -- 10 The Strange Case of Deusdedit and Pandulf. Two Accounts of Honorius II’s Election -- Afterword -- Index