The
book aims to reflect on the characteristics of urban centers of the
kingdom of Italy between the ninth and the eleventh centuries, filling a
noticeable historiographical gap. The cities in Northern Italy in this
period have not yet been analysed with a multidisciplinary approach,
able to outline their specific and distinctive characteristics and to
relate this particular period both to the post-Roman past and also to
the following “Communal” phase. Urban identities are examined from
different points of view: from a political perspective, in relation to
the dialectic between center, periphery and to the border areas of the
kingdom; from an institutional and territorial standing point, analyzing
the structures of local power and public territorializations; according
to social and military history approaches, highlighting the
continuities and transformations in comparison with former and following
centuries. The issue of urban identities is also investigated
archaeologically, in relation to urban development and to topographic
transformations, and culturally explored, examining mutual exchanges
between the cities of the kingdom. Another aspect rarely addressed by
previous literature is ultimately to compare the results of this
research on the Italic kingdom with studies on the Transalpine
Carolingian and post-Carolingian empire and kingdoms, outlining common
trends, but also specific peculiarities.
Cristina
La Rocca teaches Medieval History at the University of Padova. Her main
fields of interest are early medieval history, early medieval funerary
practices, and gender history. Her recent publications include Tempi
Barbarici, Roma 2012 (with Stefano Gasparri) and the Italian translation
of the building Variae of Cassiodorus (Roma 2015).
Piero
Majocchi had collaborated with Cristina La Rocca at the University of
Padova (Italy) and with Serena Romano at the University of Lausanne
(Switzerland) in different research in Early, Central and Late Medieval
History. He has published "Pavia città regia. Storia e memoria di una
capitale medievale" (Roma, 2008) and is publishing "La seta di
Cangrande. Rituali funerari e distinzione sociale in Italia nel medioevo
(ca. 500-1450)" with the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo,
Roma.
Table des matières :
Cristina La Roccca e Piero Maiocchi, Introduction
1. Strutture politiche e centri urbani: dialettiche centro-periferia
Stefano Gasparri , L’identità dell’Italia nordorientale e Venezia. Dalla tarda età longobarda al regno di Berengario Paola Guglielmotti,
Marches, marquesses and bishops in northwestern Italy: the construction
of urban features from the periphery towards the centre Francesco Borri, Towns and Identities in the Italian Eastland: 790-810 François Bougard, Du centre à la périphérie: le « ventre mou » du royaume d’Italie de la mort de Louis II à l’avènement d’Otton Ier
2. Identità urbane individuali e di gruppo
Piero Majocchi, L’esercito del re e le città: organizzazione militare degli eserciti urbani in Italia settentrionale (VIII-XI sec.) Andrea Augenti, Identità urbane in italia tra IX e XI secolo: un approccio archeologico Gianmarco De Angelis, Cittadini prima della cittadinanza. Alcune osservazioni sulle carte altomedievali di area lombarda Antonio Sennis, Monasteries and cities: cultural encounters
3. Rappresentazioni e realtà materiale della città
Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling,
Proclaiming power in the city: the archbishops of Ravenna and the doges
of Venice Sauro Gelichi, Venice in the early middle ages. The material
structures and society of ‘civitas aput rivoaltum’ between the 9th and
10th centuries Laura Pani, Manuscript Production in Urban Centres: Graphic and Textual Typologies Massimiliano Bassetti, I graffi ti dell’abside nord di S. Zeno: uno spaccato della società veronese del secolo X
4. Il lessico politico delle identità urbane
Tiziana Lazzari, Città e territori: l’articolazione delle circoscrizioni pubbliche nell’Italia padana (secoli IX-XI) Giorgia Vocino, Caccia al discepolo. Tradizioni apostoliche nella produzione agiografi ca dell’Italia settentrionale (VI-XI secolo) Maddalena Betti,
I centri urbani nella regione medio-danubiana (VII-IX secolo): la
rappresentazione della «Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum»
5. Conclusioni
Alessio Fiore, Le città nel gioco identitario dell’Italia settentrionale (IX-XI secolo) Igor Santos, Early medieval urban identities in northern Italy: a conclusion
6. Photo Plates
7 Index of names
7 Index of names
Informations pratiques :
M. C. La Rocca, P. Majocchi (eds.), Urban identities in Northern Italy, 800-1100 ca, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Seminari del Centro interuniversitario per la storia e l’archeologia dell’alto medioevo, 5). 496 p., 20 b/w ill. + 19 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-56547-7. Prix : 60 euros.
M. C. La Rocca, P. Majocchi (eds.), Urban identities in Northern Italy, 800-1100 ca, Turnhout, Brepols, 2015 (Seminari del Centro interuniversitario per la storia e l’archeologia dell’alto medioevo, 5). 496 p., 20 b/w ill. + 19 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN: 978-2-503-56547-7. Prix : 60 euros.
Source : Brepols