Carolingian Italy
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promoted the collection of relics in cathedrals and/or urban foundations both to centralize their power and to increase their prestige. Their ventures were part of a wider framework in which the mobility of the saints’ bodies, which was... more
Uno studio complessivo e di lunga durata dedicato agli Hucpoldingi, un oggetto di ricerca fino a oggi di difficile inquadramento per gli studiosi. Accostati al supposto governo comitale della città di Bologna dall’erudizione ottocentesca,... more
The paper is focused on two Carolingian texts, the anonimous Libellus of imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma (last quarter of the 9th Century) and Benedict of Sant’Andrea’s Chronicon (end of the 10thcentury), both citing a «locus ad Lupam»... more
Lo scorcio dell’VIII e gli inizi del IX secolo segnarono nell’alto Adriatico una fase di intenso confronto politico e diplomatico tra Franchi e Bizantini, gli uni impegnati nel tentativo di imporre la loro supremazia sull’area... more
Già da qualche tempo si è ritenuto opportuno proporre per la scul-tura ad incrostazione di mastice, tecnica di decorazione basata su un consapevole e schietto approccio coloristico e polimaterico, l'adozione di un vocabolario che non... more
Between the fall of the Roman empire and the rise of communal city-states in Italy, the classical portico was replaced by a multivalent loggia. In “Justice Seen: Loggias and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Italy,” Kim Sexton examines the... more
Written when the Lombard kingdom was on the cusp of downfall at the hands of the Carolingian empire, Paul the Deacon's narratives - and the Historia Langobardorum in particular - are vital to understanding the history of Italy and Western... more
Almost all our knowledge about the early tenth-century polemicist, Auxilius, comes from his own writings. Two statements in these writings have led scholars and most reference works to identify him as a Frankish priest, living near... more
Scopo del saggio è analizzare le capacità regie, ducali e principesche di controllare monasteri e chiese, soprattutto sul piano patrimoniale, nei territori di tradizione longobarda. A partire da due casi celebri di VIII secolo (S.... more
The Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville was one of the most widely read works of the early Middle Ages, as is evidenced by the number of surviving manuscripts. August Eduard Anspach’s handlist from the 1940s puts their number at almost... more
Discussing impact of the exhibition “Croats and Carolingians” organized by the Museum of Croatian National Monuments in 2000/2001 in Split this paper appears as afterward to the volume - Migration, Integration and Connectivity on the... more
Comparative analysis of the most important Carolingian-period Italian placiti dealing with the defence of freedom allows us to reconstruct the approach taken by various large monasteries as they attempted to transform their landholding... more
L’autel d’or de la basilique de Saint-Ambroise à Milan, voulu par l’archevêque Angilbert II (824-859), est considéré comme l’un des plus importants monuments du culte de saint Ambroise dans la ville. Sur les scènes de l’autel, la... more
This article analyzes how the crisis of the Carolingian empire was represented in the Gesta Berengarii, an anonymous panegyric composed at the beginning of the 10th century. It examines in particular how the author of the poem, like other... more
The legends of Charlemagne feature a female warrior named Bradamante who goes on the Heroine's Journey after being given the Call to Adventure by the enchantress Melissa. Together Bradamante and Melissa comprise the three aspects of the... more
This paper, delivered at IMC 2015 in Leeds (and thus both work-in-progress and an item that has not been peer reviewed - indeed is some way distant from being ready for such scrutiny) will briefly consider the global contribution of... more
The foundation of the Abbey of Nonantola and its endowment of land by Lombard kings and Carolingians rulers introduced significant changes in social and economic relations within the villages placed around Modena. Analyzing both placita... more
ARTE, STORIA E ARCHEOLOGIA in Valcamonica, Sebino e Franciacorta fra Medioevo ed età Moderna. Il presente contributo intende evidenziare l’importanza assunta dalla Valle Camonica, e altri passi montani, nella politica carolingia di... more
The object of this paper is to analyze Ross Balzaretti’s book The Lands of Saint Ambrose. Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan with a particular regard to the urban development of the city between the Late Antiquity and the Early... more
Lo studio di un tratto altomedievale delle mura del lato sud del Castro Pretorio, non accessibile normalmente al pubblico, formato da un basamento in opus quadratum sormontato da una cortina laterizia, tipicamente caratterizzati da un... more
Sagledavajući razvitak nacionalnih povijesnih disciplina od njihova znanstvenog ustrojenja i institucionalizacije tijekom 19. st. pa do suvremenosti, prva stoljeća srednjovjekovlja (7. i 8.) nameću se unutar te slike kao upadljiva lakuna... more
The role played by Lombard intellectuals in the early production of Charlemagne’s court is well known: the grammarian Peter of Pisa, the theologian Paulinus of Aquileia and the historian Paul the Deacon found favour with the Frankish king... more
"Lorenzo M. Bondioli, another of the volume’s editors, also discusses the DAI, this time with a focus on the text’s description of southern Italy, which he argues is aimed at ‘shaping and justifying the present’ rather than giving an... more
Nell’Italia carolingia, l’Emilia orientale era il settore più periferico della valle padana a sud del corso del Po e costituiva un’area di frontiera verso le terre soggette a Ravenna. Recentemente, il settore padano del regno è stato... more