Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages: Essays in South Italian Church History

by Loud,G.A.

• ISBN13: 9780860788102
• ISBN10: 0860788105
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-07-06
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the 'golden age' of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was at the height of its influence and three of its monks became popes. The studies seek to place the abbey in its context, examining its relations with the papacy, Byzantium, and the local nobility. The second part deals with Benevento and the abbey of St Sophia, and looks at its development and administration, as well as the tensions that arose from its position as a papal enclave within the Kingdom of Sicily. Based on extensive archival research, the volume as a whole presents a fresh and original insight into the society of southern Italy from the coming of the Normans to its conquest by Charles of Anjou.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
PART I MONTECASSINO
The Liri Valley in the Middle Ages	1	(29)
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Liri Valley, Central Italy, under the Direction of Edith Mary Wightman, ed. J.W. Hayes and I.P. Martini. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 595, pp. 53--68 and 121--125. Oxford, 1994
Montecassino and Byzantium in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries	30	(275)
The Theotokos Evergetis and Eleventh-Century Monasticism, ed. Margaret Mullett and Anthony Kirby. Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations 6. Belfast, 1994
Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and the Gregorian Papacy	305
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 30. Cambridge, 1979
The Norman Counts of Caiazzo and the Abbey of Montecassino	199
Monastica I Scritti raccolti in memoria del xv centenario della nascita di S. Benedetto 480-1980. Miscellanea Cassinese 44. Montecassino, 1981
PART II BENEVENTO
The Genesis and Context of the Chronicle of Falco of Benevento	177	(187)
Anglo-Norman Studies 15 Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1992, ed. M. Chibnall. Woodbridge, 1993
The Medieval Records of the Monastery of St Sophia, Benevento	364
Archives 19 London, 1991
The Abbots of St Sophia, Benevento, in the Eleventh Century	1	(272)
Quellen und Forschungen aus Italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 71. Rome, 1991
A Lombard Abbey in a Norman World: St Sophia, Benevento, 1050-1200	273	(10)
Anglo-Norman Studies 19 Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996, ed. C. Harper-Bill. Woodbridge, 1997
Politics, Piety and Ecclesiastical Patronage in Twelfth-Century Benevento	283
Cavalieri alla Conquista del Sud. Studi sull'Italia Normanna in Memoria di Leon-Robert Menager. Bari, 1998
A Provisional List of the Papal Rectors of Benevento, 1101-1227	1	(282)
First publication
Monarchy and Monastery in the Mezzogiorno: the Abbey of St Sophia, Benevento and the Staufen	283
Papers of the British School at Rome 59. Rome, 1991
PART III POSTSCRIPT
The Case of the Missing Martyrs: Frederick II's War with the Church 1239-1250	141
Studies in Church History 30, Martyrs and Martyrologies. Oxford, 1993
Index	1