Contents |
Italy and the early Middle Ages: a journey through time and space / Ross Balzaretti, Julia Barrow, and Patricia Skinner -- Chris - an appreciation / Jinty Nelson -- Lodare 'il Wickham' / Cristina La Rocca -- Part I. 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. Longobardi in the sixth century without Paulus Diaconus / Patrick Geary -- 4. Boni homines 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 pauvreté au moyen âge / Laurent Feller -- 8. Bastard feudalism and the framing of thirteenth-century England / Peter Coss -- 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 / G. A. Loud -- Part II. Texts and memory. 14. An arena of abuses and competing powers: Rome in Cassiodorus's Variae / Cristina La Rocca -- 15. Topographic memory / Elizabeth 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 III. 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 early medieval Italy / Caroline Goodson -- 24. Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialized 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. Coingage 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 IV. The spiritual economy. 30. Devozione longobarda / Paolo Delogu -- 31. Cursing and curing, or the practice of Christianity in eighth-century Rome / Julia M. H. Smith -- 32. Eastern Rome (Byzantine_ views on Islam and on Jihād, 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 / Régine Le Jan -- 36. Como and Padua / Frances Andrews. |