Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700-900 - Brossura

Costambeys, Marios

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ISBN 10: 0521178304 ISBN 13: 9780521178303

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict limits. Other parties - local elites, as well as Lombard and then Carolingian rulers - were often more important in structuring power in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early medieval politics, as a conduit for others' interests, and a player in its own right.

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Recensione

Review of the hardback: 'As its title implies, this book deals with a rather broad issue on several levels and as such might appear at first blush to be somewhat overreaching. However, as a result of his superb research, impeccable organization and disciplined writing style, Marios Costambeys, a Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool, has been able to synthesize enormous amounts of data into a coherent and insightful study that remains faithfully within the parameters of its main thesis.' The Medieval Review

'... careful work of scholarship. Costambeys writes in a clear and engaging style while his arguments are based on sound methodological groundwork.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

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Offers a perspective on central Italy, an area of early medieval Europe where political developments held most significance for the future, and where the power and aspirations of Lombard kings, Byzantine emperors, the rising dynasty of Charlemagne and the popes overlapped.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521178304
• ISBN 13: 9780521178303
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 410