Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire
Rutger Kramer
- Title
- Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy
- Subtitle
- The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c. 1100
- Author
- Edoardo Manarini
- Price
- € 153,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789463725828
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 404
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 26 - 01 - 2022
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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Prefatory Note
Acknowledgements
Maps and Tables
Abbreviations
Preface by Simon MacLean
Introduction
Part I Kinship and Political Relations
1. The Hucpoldings’ Involvement in the Political Struggles of the Kingdom of Italy (847–945)
Hucpold, Count Palatine of Louis II
Faction and Endeavour: Hubald I
The Aristocratic Career of Boniface dux et marchio between Rudolf II and Hugh of Arles
Bibliography
2. Family Patterns and Political Affirmation (945–1012)
The Duchy of Spoleto and Tuscany
Eastern Emilia and the Exarchate of Ravenna
The March of Tuscany
Bibliography
3. The Local Basis of Power in a Wide Political Network (1012–1116)
Hugh II and His Lineage in Bologna and Ferrara
The Ties that Bind: Boniface of Canossa and Kinship Networks across the Apennines
The Counts of Romena-Panico
Bibliography
Part II Properties and Patronage
4. The Exarchate
Land Possession and Relations in the Ninth Century
The Troubled Years, c.960–c.1000
Persistence in the comitatus Faentinus and the 1034 Pact
Bibliography
5. The March of Tuscany
The Family Group Estates in the Ninth Century
Marchisal Fisc and Monastic Foundations
Centres of Power, Patronage Networks
Bibliography
6. Ruling on the Border : Landed Possessions from the Po Valley to the Apennines in Bononia’s Diocese
Acquisitions, Exchanges, Organization of Lands in the Tenth Century
Landed Wealth and Hegemony
Lands, People and Castles (900–1100)
Estate Management: Between Territorial Consolidation and Dispersal
Bibliography
Part III Power, Relationships, Memory
7. Kinship, Self-awareness and Memory
Onomastic Choices
The lex Ribuaria profession
The Role of Monastic Foundations: Family Memory, Politics and Identity
Kinship Representations between Perceptions and Self-awareness
Evolution and Hierarchy of Kinship Cohesion
Bibliography
8. Features and Practices of Power: From Officials to Lords
Firsts Steps at Court: Offices and Responsibilities in the Kingdom of Italy
The Marchisal Achievement and the Gaining of Ecclesiastical Offices
Dinastizzazione of the Title of comes and the Development of Seigneurial Rule in a Border Region
Bibliography
9. Discontinuity between Public Powers and Private Seigneurial Rule
Bibliography
Genealogical Tables
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Maps and Tables
Abbreviations
Preface by Simon MacLean
Introduction
Part I Kinship and Political Relations
1. The Hucpoldings’ Involvement in the Political Struggles of the Kingdom of Italy (847–945)
Hucpold, Count Palatine of Louis II
Faction and Endeavour: Hubald I
The Aristocratic Career of Boniface dux et marchio between Rudolf II and Hugh of Arles
Bibliography
2. Family Patterns and Political Affirmation (945–1012)
The Duchy of Spoleto and Tuscany
Eastern Emilia and the Exarchate of Ravenna
The March of Tuscany
Bibliography
3. The Local Basis of Power in a Wide Political Network (1012–1116)
Hugh II and His Lineage in Bologna and Ferrara
The Ties that Bind: Boniface of Canossa and Kinship Networks across the Apennines
The Counts of Romena-Panico
Bibliography
Part II Properties and Patronage
4. The Exarchate
Land Possession and Relations in the Ninth Century
The Troubled Years, c.960–c.1000
Persistence in the comitatus Faentinus and the 1034 Pact
Bibliography
5. The March of Tuscany
The Family Group Estates in the Ninth Century
Marchisal Fisc and Monastic Foundations
Centres of Power, Patronage Networks
Bibliography
6. Ruling on the Border : Landed Possessions from the Po Valley to the Apennines in Bononia’s Diocese
Acquisitions, Exchanges, Organization of Lands in the Tenth Century
Landed Wealth and Hegemony
Lands, People and Castles (900–1100)
Estate Management: Between Territorial Consolidation and Dispersal
Bibliography
Part III Power, Relationships, Memory
7. Kinship, Self-awareness and Memory
Onomastic Choices
The lex Ribuaria profession
The Role of Monastic Foundations: Family Memory, Politics and Identity
Kinship Representations between Perceptions and Self-awareness
Evolution and Hierarchy of Kinship Cohesion
Bibliography
8. Features and Practices of Power: From Officials to Lords
Firsts Steps at Court: Offices and Responsibilities in the Kingdom of Italy
The Marchisal Achievement and the Gaining of Ecclesiastical Offices
Dinastizzazione of the Title of comes and the Development of Seigneurial Rule in a Border Region
Bibliography
9. Discontinuity between Public Powers and Private Seigneurial Rule
Bibliography
Genealogical Tables
Bibliography
Index
Reviews and Features
''Edoardo Manarini’s Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy applies new methodological approaches to the often narrowly considered Hucpoldings. […] this publication is sure to serve as the foundation for future study of the expansive kinship group.
The book is a well-researched and insightful exploration of the development and exercise of power within the Hucpolding dynasty.
Manarini has provided a fruitful framework that would complement other approaches, including those of material culture and gender studies.''
-Blair Apgar, Speculum 98/4 October (2023)
The book is a well-researched and insightful exploration of the development and exercise of power within the Hucpolding dynasty.
Manarini has provided a fruitful framework that would complement other approaches, including those of material culture and gender studies.''
-Blair Apgar, Speculum 98/4 October (2023)
Edoardo Manarini
Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy
The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c. 1100
This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy. Though the Hucpoldings have not received extensive treatment in previous anglophone scholarship, they had a key influence in much of what was happening in this period. Manarini’s groundbreaking study highlights the dramatic geopolitical changes surrounding this kinship group in the kingdom of Italy across three crucial centuries. The research reconstructs political events associated with every identifiable member of the kinship, as well as inquiring into their patrimony and their networks of relationships and patronage. Finally, it examines the distinctive characteristics of the group to gain a clearer picture of the nature of their power, their memory strategies and the shared perceptions and self-awareness of group members.
Author
Edoardo Manarini
Edoardo Manarini is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin. His research revolves around Western European medieval political institutions, focusing on Italy’s elite kindreds and their interconnection with regnal power, the links between kings and abbeys in Lombard and Carolingian Italy, the dynamics of memory and monastic production of written strategies.
