""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""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W"" |