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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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