Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy : : The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c.1100 / / Edoardo Manarini.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Manarini, Edoardo,
• MitwirkendeR: MacLean, Simon,
• 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 ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)

This book presents a detailed study which focuses upon the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy. Though the Hucpoldings have not received extensive treatment in previous Anglophone scholarship, they are a key clan in this period. Manarini’s ground-breaking study uses this kinship group to highlight and pinpoint the dramatic geopolitical changes in the kingdom of Italy across three crucial centuries. The research deals with the reconstruction of the political events of every identifiable member of the kinship, as well as the inquiry into their patrimony and their networks of relations and patronage throughout the kingdom of Italy. Finally, it examines the particular elements of the group, from which emerges a clearer picture of the nature of their power, their memory strategies and the shared perceptions and self-awareness among the group members.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Acknowledgements -- Maps and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Kinship and Political Relations -- 1. The Hucpoldings’ Involvement in the Political Struggles of the Kingdom of Italy (847–945) -- 2. Family Patterns and Political Affirmation (945–1012) -- 3. The Local Basis of Power in a Wide Political Network (1012–1116) -- Part II Properties and Patronage -- 4. The Exarchate -- 5. The March of Tuscany -- 6. Ruling on the Border : Landed Possessions from the Po Valley to the Apennines in Bononia’s Diocese -- Part III Power, Relationships, Memory -- 7. Kinship, Self-awareness and Memory -- 8. Features and Practices of Power: From Officials to Lords -- 9. Discontinuity between Public Powers and Private Seigneurial Rule -- Genealogical Tables -- Bibliography -- Index