This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy. The contributors present a new critique of power that sustained both kingship and locally based elite networks throughout the Italian peninsula. A broad temporal range, covering the sixth to the twelfth centuries, allows this book to cross a number of 'traditional' fault-lines in Italian historiography - 774, 888, 962 and 1025. The essays provide wide-ranging analyses of the role of conflict in the period, the operation of power and the development of communal consciousness and collective action by individuals and groups. It is thus essential reading for scholars, students and general readers who wish to understand the situation in medieval Italy.
| ISBN: | 9789462985179 |
| Publication date: | 22nd December 2021 |
| Author: | Christopher Heath, Robert Houghton, Guido Berndt, Francesco Borri, Kordula Wolf, David Barritt, Edoardo Manarini, Penelope Nash, Edoardo Veneziani |
| Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 344 pages |
| Series: | Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages |
| Genres: |
European history History and Archaeology |