Format:
Online-Ressource (268 p)
ISBN:
9780812215878
Series Statement:
Middle Ages Series
Content:
Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquest.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Beginnings -- The Sixth to Eighth Centuries -- Arichis and Charlemagne -- Southern Italy in the Early Ninth Century -- 2. The First Arab Impact -- The Road to Arab Mercenaries -- The Pactum Sicardi -- Fragmentation: Naples and Amalfi, Benevento and Salerno -- 846: The Arab Sack of Rome -- Lothar, Louis, and the 849 Divisio -- 3. A Carolingian Crusade -- Louis II: The Politics of Failure -- The Arabs -- The Arabs in Southern Italy: Perception and Reality -- 4. Firming the Elements -- Pope John VIII: A Dream Denied -- Campania and Its Arabs -- Byzantium Redux -- The New Political Configuration -- The Autonomous States -- 5. Amalfi in Context -- Signs of Change: 902 and 915 -- The Rise of Amalfi -- Open Doors: Trading with the Arab World -- The Jews of Southern Italy -- Why Amalfi? -- The Structures of Amalfitan Trade -- 6. Salerno's Southern Italy in the Tenth Century -- The Sources for Salerno -- The Scene Through the 960s -- Otto the Great in Southern Italy -- Moving Toward Opulentia -- 7. The Late Tenth Century and South Italian Structures -- Growth or Development? -- The Ottonian Effect -- Religion -- Legal Structures and Their Implications -- Servitude and Demographics -- Incastellamento -- The Evolution of Standards -- 8. Campania and Its Culture in the Tenth Century -- The Quality of Life -- Beneventan" Culture -- The Mediterranean Environment and Medicine at Salerno -- Campania and Its Tenth-Century Ethos -- The Beginning of the End -- 9. Epilogue: The Eleventh Century and After -- The Byzantine Overlay -- The Fate of the Autonomous States -- The South Italian Legacy -- Notes -- Appendix: The Southern Lombard Rulers, 758-1000 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Maps""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Beginnings""; ""The Sixth to Eighth Centuries""; ""Arichis and Charlemagne""; ""Southern Italy in the Early Ninth Century""; ""2. The First Arab Impact""; ""The Road to Arab Mercenaries""; ""The Pactum Sicardi""; ""Fragmentation: Naples and Amalfi, Benevento and Salerno""; ""846: The Arab Sack of Rome""; ""Lothar, Louis, and the 849 Divisio""; ""3. A Carolingian Crusade""; ""Louis II: The Politics of Failure""; ""The Arabs""
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""The Arabs in Southern Italy: Perception and Reality""""4. Firming the Elements""; ""Pope John VIII: A Dream Denied""; ""Campania and Its Arabs""; ""Byzantium Redux""; ""The New Political Configuration""; ""The Autonomous States""; ""5. Amalfi in Context""; ""Signs of Change: 902 and 915""; ""The Rise of Amalfi""; ""Open Doors: Trading with the Arab World""; ""The Jews of Southern Italy""; ""Why Amalfi?""; ""The Structures of Amalfitan Trade""; ""6. Salerno's Southern Italy in the Tenth Century""; ""The Sources for Salerno""; ""The Scene Through the 960s""
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""Otto the Great in Southern Italy""""Moving Toward Opulentia""; ""7. The Late Tenth Century and South Italian Structures""; ""Growth or Development?""; ""The Ottonian Effect""; ""Religion""; ""Legal Structures and Their Implications""; ""Servitude and Demographics""; ""Incastellamento""; ""The Evolution of Standards""; ""8. Campania and Its Culture in the Tenth Century""; ""The Quality of Life""; """"Beneventan"" Culture""; ""The Mediterranean Environment and Medicine at Salerno""; ""Campania and Its Tenth-Century Ethos""; ""The Beginning of the End""
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""9. Epilogue: The Eleventh Century and After""""The Byzantine Overlay""; ""The Fate of the Autonomous States""; ""The South Italian Legacy""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix: The Southern Lombard Rulers, 758-1000""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812205435
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812215878
Additional Edition:
Print version Before the Normans : Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Language:
English
Keywords:
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