After Charlemagne : : Carolingian Italy and its rulers / / edited by Clemens Gantner, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Walter Pohl, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

• Author: Italy and its Rulers in the Ninth Century: Was there a Carolingian Italy? Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gantner, Clemens,; Pohl, Walter, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected period of Italy in the ninth century and the impact of Carolingian culture. Bringing together some of the foremost scholars on early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers the first comprehensive overview of the period, and also presents new research on Italian politics, culture, society and economy, from the death of Charlemagne to the assassination of Berengar I in 924. Revealing Italy as a multifaceted peninsula, the authors address the governance and expansion of Carolingian Italy, examining relations with the other Carolingian kingdoms, as well as those with the Italian South, the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire. Exploring topics on a regional and local level as well as presenting a 'big picture' of the Italian or Lombard kingdom, this volume provides new and exciting answers to the central question: How Carolingian was 'Carolingian Italy'?

Table of Contents

Italy after Charlemagne: Scope and aims of the volume / Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl -- A brief introduction to Italian political history until 875 / Clemens Gantner -- Thomas F. X. Noble Talking about the Carolingians in Eighth and Ninth-Century Italy The name of the kingdom / Paolo Delogub --Was there a Carolingian Italy? Politics, institutions and book culture / Paolo Delogu -- The government of a peripheral area. The Carolingians and north-eastern Italy / Stefano Gasparri -- Vassals without feudalism in Carolingian Italy / Giuseppe Albertoni -- Shaping a kingdom: the Sees of Parma and Arezzo between the reigns of Louis II and Berengar / Igor Santos Salazar -- Staying Lombard while becoming Carolingian? Italy under King Pippin / Marco Stoffella -- A Byzantine cuckoo in the Frankish nest? The Exarchate of Ravenna and the Kingdom of Italy in the long ninth century / Tom Brown -- Urbanism as Politics in Ninth-Century Italy / Caroline Goodson -- Rome and the others: Saints, relics and hagiography in Carolingian north-eastern Italy / Francesco Veronese -- Between the Palace, the School and the Forum. Rhetoric and Court Culture in Late Lombard and Carolingian Italy / Giorgia Vocino.