After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and its Rulers

356 Pages·2020·3.445 MB·English

by  Clemens Gantner, Walter Pohl

After Charlemagne
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
someoftheforemostscholarsonearlymedievalItaly,AfterCharlemagne
offers thefirst comprehensive overviewofthe period,and also presents
newresearchonItalianpolitics,culture,societyandeconomy,fromthe
death of Charlemagne to the assassination of Berengar I in 924.
Revealing Italy as a multifaceted peninsula, the authors address the
governanceandexpansionofCarolingianItaly,examiningrelationswith
theotherCarolingiankingdoms,aswellasthosewiththeItaliansouth,
thepapacyandtheByzantineempire.Exploringtopicsonaregionaland
locallevelaswellaspresentinga‘bigpicture’oftheItalianorLombard
kingdom, thisvolumeprovidesnew andexciting answerstothecentral
question:HowCarolingianwas‘CarolingianItaly’?
clemens gantner is Researcher at the Department for Historical
Identity Research at the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian
AcademyofSciences,wherehisresearchisfocussedonearlymedieval
Italy and intra- and intercultural communication around the
Mediterranean. He is the author of Freunde Roms und Völker der
Finsternis (2014) and 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
HistoricalResearch,UniversityofViennaandDirectoroftheInstitute
for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research
addressesmanyaspectsofearlymedievalhistory,withaspecialinterest
inItaly.HispublicationsincludeTheAvars:ASteppeEmpireinCentral
Europe,567–822(2018),StrategiesofIdentification:EthnicityandReligion
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)andaSynergyGrant(2019).
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Carolingian Italy and its Rulers
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Clemens Gantner
AustrianAcademyofSciences
Walter Pohl
AustrianAcademyofSciences
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After Charlemagne
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
someoftheforemostscholarsonearlymedievalItaly,AfterCharlemagne
offers thefirst comprehensive overviewofthe period,and also presents
newresearchonItalianpolitics,culture,societyandeconomy,fromthe
death of Charlemagne to the assassination of Berengar I in 924.
Revealing Italy as a multifaceted peninsula, the authors address the
governanceandexpansionofCarolingianItaly,examiningrelationswith
theotherCarolingiankingdoms,aswellasthosewiththeItaliansouth,
thepapacyandtheByzantineempire.Exploringtopicsonaregionaland
locallevelaswellaspresentinga‘bigpicture’oftheItalianorLombard
kingdom, thisvolumeprovidesnew andexciting answerstothecentral
question:HowCarolingianwas‘CarolingianItaly’?
clemens gantner is Researcher at the Department for Historical
Identity Research at the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian
AcademyofSciences,wherehisresearchisfocussedonearlymedieval
Italy and intra- and intercultural communication around the
Mediterranean. He is the author of Freunde Roms und Völker der
Finsternis (2014) and 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
HistoricalResearch,UniversityofViennaandDirectoroftheInstitute
for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research
addressesmanyaspectsofearlymedievalhistory,withaspecialinterest
inItaly.HispublicationsincludeTheAvars:ASteppeEmpireinCentral
Europe,567–822(2018),StrategiesofIdentification:EthnicityandReligion
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)andaSynergyGrant(2019).
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After Charlemagne
Carolingian Italy and its Rulers
Edited by
Clemens Gantner
AustrianAcademyofSciences
Walter Pohl
AustrianAcademyofSciences
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UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom
OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA
477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia
314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,New
Delhi–110025,India
79AnsonRoad,#06-04/06,Singapore079906
CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge.
ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof
education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence.
www.cambridge.org
Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108840774
DOI:10.1017/9781108887762
©CambridgeUniversityPress2021
Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception
andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements,
noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten
permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress.
Firstpublished2021
AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary.
ISBN978-1-108-84077-4Hardback
CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy
ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication
anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain,
accurateorappropriate.
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After Charlemagne
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
someoftheforemostscholarsonearlymedievalItaly,AfterCharlemagne
offers thefirst comprehensive overviewofthe period,and also presents
newresearchonItalianpolitics,culture,societyandeconomy,fromthe
death of Charlemagne to the assassination of Berengar I in 924.
Revealing Italy as a multifaceted peninsula, the authors address the
governanceandexpansionofCarolingianItaly,examiningrelationswith
theotherCarolingiankingdoms,aswellasthosewiththeItaliansouth,
thepapacyandtheByzantineempire.Exploringtopicsonaregionaland
locallevelaswellaspresentinga‘bigpicture’oftheItalianorLombard
kingdom, thisvolumeprovidesnew andexciting answerstothecentral
question:HowCarolingianwas‘CarolingianItaly’?
clemens gantner is Researcher at the Department for Historical
Identity Research at the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian
AcademyofSciences,wherehisresearchisfocussedonearlymedieval
Italy and intra- and intercultural communication around the
Mediterranean. He is the author of Freunde Roms und Völker der
Finsternis (2014) and 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
HistoricalResearch,UniversityofViennaandDirectoroftheInstitute
for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research
addressesmanyaspectsofearlymedievalhistory,withaspecialinterest
inItaly.HispublicationsincludeTheAvars:ASteppeEmpireinCentral
Europe,567–822(2018),StrategiesofIdentification:EthnicityandReligion
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)andaSynergyGrant(2019).
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