1. Italy after Charlemagne: scope and aims of the volume Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl; 2. A brief introduction to Italian political history until 875 Clemens Gantner; Part I. Was There a Carolingian Italy?: 3. Talking about the Carolingians in eighth- and ninth-century Italy Thomas F. X. Noble; 4. The name of the kingdom Paolo Delogu; 5. Was there a Carolingian Italy? Politics, institutions and book culture François Bougard; Part II. Organizing Italy: 6. The government of a peripheral area: the Carolingians and north-eastern Italy Stefano Gasparri; 7. Vassals without feudalism in Carolingian Italy Giuseppe Albertoni; 8. Shaping a kingdom: the sees of Parma and Arezzo between the reigns of Louis II and Berengar Igor Santos Salazar; Part III. Carolingian Rulers: 9. Staying Lombard while becoming Carolingian? Italy under King Pippin Marco Stoffella; 10. Carolingian fathers and sons in Italy: Lothar I and Louis II's successful partnership Elina Screen; 11. A king in training? Louis II of Italy and his expedition to Rome in 844 Clemens Gantner; Part IV. Cities, Courts and Carolingians: 12. A Byzantine cuckoo in the Frankish nest? The Exarchate of Ravenna and the Kingdom of Italy in the long ninth century Tom Brown; 13. Urbanism as politics in ninth-century Italy Caroline Goodson; 14. Rome and the others: saints, relics and hagiography in Carolingian north-eastern Italy Francesco Veronese; 15. Between the palace, the school and the forum: rhetoric and court culture in late Lombard and Carolingian Italy Giorgia Vocino; Bibliography.
Offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected history of ninth-century Italy and the impact of Carolingian culture.
Clemens Gantner is Researcher at the Department for Historical Identity Research at the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, where his research is focussed on early medieval Italy and intra- and intercultural communication around the Mediterranean. He is the author of Freunde Roms und Völker der Finsternis (2014), editor of The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe (2015) and is preparing a monograph on Louis II, great-grandson of Charlemagne and emperor in Italy in the ninth century. Walter Pohl is Professor of History at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, University of Vienna and Director of the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research addresses many aspects of early medieval history, with a special interest in Italy. His publications include The Avars: A Steppe Empire in Central Europe, 567–822 (2018), Strategies of Identification: Ethnicity and Religion in Early Medieval Europe, ed. Walter Pohl and Gerda Heydemann (2013) and over 200 journal articles. In 2004 he was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize, and he has been a recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2010) and a Synergy Grant (2019).
'This collection of papers by leading international experts gives
access to the immense cultural productivity and textual richness of
Carolingian Italy, to its manifold regional traditions and to its
continuous openness to external influence.' Stefan Esders, Freie
Universität Berlin
'Gantner and Pohl have assembled a star-studded international cast
to investigate the distinctiveness of ninth-century Italy. In
challenging the very notion of 'Carolingian' Italy', this book
offers rigorous and stimulating new interpretations of the
narrative, documentary and manuscript sources concerning the
politics, society and culture of Italy under Carolingian rule.'
Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge
'In the rich historiography on the Carolingians, less attention has
in the past been paid to Italy; but now high-quality work is being
done. This book brings that work together exceptionally well. It
assembles the major experts on Carolingian Italy, and shows an
exciting range of new approaches. All early medievalists will need
to read it.' Chris Wickham, University of Oxford
'Highly recommended.' G. I. Halfond, Choice
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