Italy and early medieval Europe : papers for Chris Wickham

Format:

Book

Language:

English, Italian, and French

Imprint:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 and ©2018

Subject:

Italy - History - 476-1492
Europe - History - 476-1492

Contributor:

Balzaretti, Ross, editor
Barrow, Julia, editor
Skinner, Patricia, editor
Wickham, Chris, honouree

ISBN:

9780198777601 and 0198777604

Series:

Past & present book series

Description:

xiv, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:

Chris Wickham bibliography: pages [539]-550

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Italy and the early Middle Ages: a journey through time and space / Ross Balzaretti, Julia Barrow, and Patricia Skinner -- Chris - an appreciation / Jinty Nelson -- Lodare 'il Wickham' / Cristina La Rocca -- Social cohesion, breaks, and transformations in Italy, 535-600 / Walter Pohl -- The Roman origins of the Northumbrian kingdom / Ian Wood -- Longobardi in the sixth century without Paulus Diaconus / Patrick Geary -- Boni homines in northern Iberia: a particularity that raises some general questions / Wendy Davies -- Gender and the gift: the giving and receiving of women in early medieval England / Pauline Stafford -- Still fussing about feudalism / Susan Reynolds -- Travail, salaire et pauvreté au moyen âge / Laurent Feller -- Bastard feudalism and the framing of thirteenth-century England / Peter Coss -- Changing rural settlements in the early Middle Ages in central and northern Italy: towards the centralization of rural property / Marco Valenti -- Between the city and the countryside: the aristocracy in the March of Tuscia (late tenth-early twelfth centuries) / Maria Elena Cortese -- Riflessioni sulle economie dei secoli X e XI: Palermo e Roma a confronto / Alessandra Molinari -- Reframing Norman Italy / Sandro Carocci -- Labour services and peasant obligations in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern Italy / G. A. Loud -- An arena of abuses and competing powers: Rome in Cassiodorus's Variae / Cristina La Rocca -- Topographic memory / Elizabeth Fentress -- The Damnatio Memoriae of Pope Constantine II (767-768) / Rosamond McKitterick -- Fame and its vagaries in the Middle Ages / Antonio Sennis -- Archives and social change in Italy, c.900-1100: the evidence of dispute notices / Marios Costambeys -- Disputed possession, legal process, and memory in thirteenth-century Lombardy: the case of Guastalla and Luzzara (1193-1227) / Edward Coleman -- 'To destroy a city so great and remarkable': lamentation, panegyric, and the idea of the medieval city / Paul Oldfield -- 'Framing' and lighting: another angle on transition / Paul Fouracre -- Lands and lights in early medieval Rome / Joanna Story -- Garden cities in early medieval Italy / Caroline Goodson -- Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialized production in tenth-century Genoa and Milan / Ross Balzaretti -- The 'life aquatic' on Athos in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Rosemary Morris -- Public powers, private powers, and the exploitation of metals for coinage: the case of medieval Tuscany / Giovanna Bianchi -- Coingage and the tributary mode of production / Eduardo Manzano Moreno -- Comparing medieval Iceland with other regions: problems and possibilities / Chris Callow -- Early medieval Wales and Calabria: a mountain of problems? / Patricia Skinner -- Devozione longobarda / Paolo Delogu -- Cursing and curing, or the practice of Christianity in eighth-century Rome / Julia M. H. Smith -- Eastern Rome (Byzantine_ views on Islam and on Jihād, c.900 CE: a papal connection / John Haldon -- The two republics: ecclesia and the public domain in the Carolingian world / Mayke de Jong -- Developing definitions of reform in the church in the ninth and tenth centuries / Julia Barrow -- Memory, gift, and politics: Matilda of Tuscany and her donations to St Peter / Régine Le Jan -- Como and Padua / Frances Andrews

Summary:

A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology, set within a broader context of studies on major transitions in Europe from c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors also reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans the transition from Roman to medieval Europe

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

DG501 .I835 2018

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