Italy and Early Medieval Europe Papers for Chris Wickham

by Balzaretti, Ross; Barrow, Julia; Skinner, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780198777601
• ISBN10: 0198777604
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-10-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ross Balzaretti is an Associate Professor and Head of History at the University of Nottingham. He completed his PhD at University College London and held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, for which he is now an ambassador. In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Julia Barrow is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. She previously worked at the universities of Birmingham - where she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - and Nottingham. Her research interests lie chiefly in Church history in England and Western Europe to 1300.

Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University. She completed her PhD under Chris Wickham's supervision at Birmingham, and remained there holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has published several books and numerous articles on Italian, gender and medical history.

Table of Contents

Italy and the Early Middle Ages: a Journey through Time and Space, Ross Balzaretti, Julia Barrow and Patricia Skinner
Chris - An Appreciation, Janet Nelson
Lodare 'il Wickham', Cristina La Rocca
Part One - Lords and Peasants: Frames for the Middle Ages
1. Social Cohesion, Breaks and Transformations in Italy, 535-600, Walter Pohl
2. The Roman Origins of the Northumbrian Kingdom, Ian Wood
3. Langobardi in the Sixth Century without Paulus Diaconus, Patrick Geary
4. Boni homini in Northern Iberia: a Particularity that Raises some General Questions, Wendy Davies
5. Gender and the Gift: the Giving and Receiving of Women in Early Medieval England, Pauline Stafford
6. Still Fussing about Feudalism, Susan Reynolds
7. Travail, Salaire et Pauvrete au Moyen Age, Laurent Feller
8. Bastard Feudalism and the Framing of Thirteenth-Century England, Peter Cross
9. Changing Rural Settlements in the Early Middle Ages in Central and northern Italy: Towards the Centralization of Rural Property, Marco Valenti
10. Between the City and the Countryside: the Aristocracy in the March of Tuscia (late tenth - early twelfth centuries), Maria Elena Cortese
11. Riflessioni sulle Economie dei Secoli X e XI: Palermo e Roma a Confronto, Alessandra Molinari
12. Reframing Norman Italy, Sandro Carocci
13. Labour Services and Peasant Obligations in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Southern Italy, Graham A. Loud
Part Two - Texts and Memories
14. An Arena of Abuses and Competing Powers: Rome in Cassiodorus', Cristina La Rocca
15. Topographic Memory, Lisa Fentress
16. The Damnatio Memoriae of Pope Constantine II (767-768), Rosamond McKitterick
17. Fame and its Vagaries in the Middle Ages, Antonio Sennis
18. Archives and Social Change in Italy, c.900-1100: the Evidence of Dispute Notices, Marios Costambeys
19. Disputed Possession, Legal Process and Memory in Thirteenth-Century Lombardy: the case of Guastalla and Luzzara (1193-1227), Edward Coleman
20. 'To Destroy a City so Great and Remarkable': Lamentation, Panegyric and the Idea of the Medieval City, Paul Oldfield
Part Three - Economic Resources
21. 'Framing' and Lighting: Another Angle on Transition, Paul Fouracre
22. Lands and Lights in Early Medieval Rome, Joanna Story
23. Garden Cities in Medieval Italy, Caroline Goodson
24. Chestnuts in Charters: Evidence for Specialised Production in Tenth-Century Genoa and Milan, Ross Balzaretti
25. The 'Life Aquatic' on Athos in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, Rosemary Morris
26. Public Powers, Private Powers and the Exploitation of Metals for Coinage: the Case of Medieval Tuscany, Giovanna Bianchi
27. Coinage and the Tributary Mode of Production, Eduardo Manzano Moreno
28. Comparing Medieval Iceland with Other Regions: Problems and Possibilities, Chris Callow
29. Early Medieval Wales and Calabria: a Mountain of Problems?, Patricia Skinner
Part Four - The Spiritual Economy
30. Devozione longobarda, Paolo Delongu
31. Cursing and Curing, or The Practice of Christianity in Eighth-Century Rome, Julia Smith
32. Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Views on Islam and on Jih?d, c.900 CE: a Papal Connection?, John Haldon
33. The Two Republics: Ecclesia and the Public Domain in the Carolingian World, Mayke de Jong
34. Developing Definitions of Reform in the Church in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, Julia Barrow
35. Memory, Gift and Politics: Matilda of Tuscany and her Donations to St Peter, Regine Le Jan
36. Como and Padua, Frances Andrews