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Storia, memoria e storiografia. A proposito di una recente monografia su Carlo Magno e l’Europa
No full textThis article explores and discusses parts of the contents and
implications of the recent book written by M. M. Tischler, Carlemany a Eu-
ropa. Història i memòria, Barcelona 2022. Its analysis of the governing princi-
ples, reception, and cultural impact of the Carolingians in Europe, and more
specifically in Catalunya, is well documented. The idea we have today of
Charlemagne is probably not strictly historical, but rather a historiographical
idea that emerges gradually from its various chapters. The passion and in-
terests of Charlemagne’s various biographers and historians – from Einhard
to Alcuin to Pseudo-Turpin – thus offer us an image of a figure shaped by
the historical and political context of the intellectuals who wrote about him,
rather than of Charlemagne himself. The rich textual history detailed in
this study and the implications of that history for an understanding of early
European and Catalonian Carolingian culture are impressive and are duly
highlighted in this article
Chi ha sposato chi? Carlomanno e Gerberga, Carlo e Ildegarda e il presunto matrimonio con una principessa longobarda
Full text linkITALIANO: Una serie di volumi recenti dedicati alle figure di Carlo Magno e di Desiderio offrono spunti interessanti per ripercorrere un argomento controverso e a lungo dibattuto dalla storiografia quale il supposto matrimonio tra Carlo e una delle figlie dell’ultimo re longobardo. Il presente contributo cerca di ribaltare le conclusioni pressoché unanimi alle quali è giunta la ricerca fino ad ora, sostenendo che a sposare la figlia di Desiderio non sia stato Carlo, ma il fratello Carlomanno. Dopo avere discusso la notizia contenuta nella Vita Karoli, la prima che attribuisca l’unione all’imperatore, l’articolo analizza criticamente la narrazione di Eginardo e vaglia tutte le fonti cronologicamente più prossime agli eventi e che fino ad oggi sono state poco valorizzate o mai esplorate. Emerge così un quadro estremamente contraddittorio. L’ipotesi di un matrimonio della principessa longobarda Gerberga con Carlomanno risulta suffragata da una serie di elementi che restituiscono una lettura meno lineare delle relazioni politiche tra il regno dei Franchi, il papato e il regno dei Longobardi nell’intervallo compreso tra il 768 e il 772 ca. / ENGLISH: Recent studies on Charlemagne and Desiderius have prompted reflections on the controversial issue, which has been long debated by historians, of the supposed marriage between Charlemagne and one of the daughters of the last King of the Lombards. The aim of this article is to overturn the conclusions that the most historians have drawn about this marriage, and to demonstrate that it did not take place between the Lombard princess and Charles, but between the former and Charles’ brother Carloman. Einhard’s Vita Karoli is the first source to claim that the Lombard princess married Emperor Charles. After a critical analysis of this biography, the article assesses all those sources that are chronologically closer to the event, and which until now have either received little attention or not been explored at all. A picture emerges that completely contradicts the traditional understanding of the Lombard-Frankish marriage. This new hypothesis of a marriage between the Lombard princess Gerberga and Carloman is supported by several clues that provide a far more nuanced and less linear interpretation of the political relationship among the Franks, the papacy and the Lombard Kingdom between 768 and 772
Before the canon houses. A reform at the Domus episcopi of Lucca in the Lombard period
No full textThe essay investigates the repercussions of mid-eighth-century reforms on the urban clergy of northern Italy. A detailed study reveals that a hitherto unknown reform project was undertaken in Lucca. The evidence comes from the analysis of numerous surviving manuscripts: these yielded some interesting findings that, after an introduction to the state of the field, are discussed in the central part of the article. The final part contains a brief reflection on some canonical collections that allows us to draw out some connections between western Tuscany and Verona and the Po Valley, thus indicating greater concerns with the state of the urban clergy in the Lombard kingdom than was hitherto thought
Crisi e trasformazioni delle élites nella Toscana nord-occidentale nel secolo VIII: esempi a confronto
No full textGrazie al campione documentario particolarmente ricco, già a partire dagli esordi del regno di Liutprando e lungo tutto l’VIII secolo è possibile evidenziare il costituirsi e l’affermarsi presso Lucca di gruppi egemoni, le loro interazioni con la corte per un verso e con la società locale dall’altro. Ai processi di crescita sociale si devono affiancare, però, situazioni di difficoltà e di marginalizzazione che si risolsero con la promozione di altri gruppi famigliari già presenti sul territorio. Sono questi alcuni dei temi al centro del presente lavoro in grado di mostrare, attraverso molteplici esempi, le dinamiche sociali e le trasformazioni cui le élites andarono incontro nella Tuscia longobarda nel corso dell’VIII secolo. Insieme alle discontinuità politiche e sociali tra dominazione longobarda e carolingia, infine, saranno poste in luce alcune linee di continuità che segnarono la società della Toscana settentrionale e le sue élites tra la seconda metà dell’VIII e gli inizi del IX secolo
Valperto (Vualperto, Walperto, Gualperto), duca di Lucca
No full textLa voce illustra le vicende del duca di Lucca attivo nei primi decenni dell'VIII secolo e segue le vicende dei suoi più immediati successori
Vettari, duca del Friuli
No full textBreve profilo del duca del Friuli attivo nella seconda metà del VII Secol
La basilica e il monastero di S. Zeno nel contesto veronese di fine VIII e inizio IX secolo
No full textThe history of the church and monastery of St Zeno in Verona between the Lombard and the Carolingian period is a very disputed one for many reasons. Later copies and forgeries of royal diplomatas have been used by historian in order to describe the first phase of its history, placing a new consecration and the establishment of a Benedictine monastery in 807 thanks to bishop Ratold and king Pippin of Italy. This essay enquires the old local tradition and establishes through the analysis of many different kind of sources the role of the basilica and of the cult of the patron saint of Verona Zeno in northern Italy and in the areas where, during the 8th and 9th century, the 4th century bishop and confessor was popular and venerated. Documents, hagiographical texts, political and social analysis, liturgical calendars, archaeological excavations and palaeographical analysis of manuscripts are the main tools used in this paper through which a renovated profile of the late Lombard and early Carolingian church emerges. Moreover, we might be wrong in continuing overemphasizing the Carolingian initiatives in Verona, since the Zeno cult was already popular in the Lombard period, favoured by the high raking Lombard and Bavarian aristocracy; moreover, according to the description of the building by Paul the Deacon, the basilica might have been renovated at different stages
Quando è nato Carlomanno, re dei Franchi? Quando è nato Carlo il Giovane, figlio di Carlo Magno?
No full textCarloman, king of the Franks (768-771), brother of the celebrated Charlemagne, is traditionally considered a minor figure who has rarely been investigated. He had an independent policy, a chancery that he inherited from his father king Pippin III, and while he lived, he played a central political role in the Frankish kingdom. Recent new evidence suggests that it was Carloman, not Charlemagne, who in Summer 770 married the Lombard princess Gerberga, daughter of king Desiderius and queen Ansa. In that same summer, Charlemagne married the Suebian/ Alemannian princess Hildegard, member of the former ducal Alemannian family. Both kings in Summer 771 had newborn sons: Carloman had Pippin, who was protected by pope Stephen III, Charlemagne had Charles the Younger, who is mentioned for the first time in a royal charter for Saint-Calais in July 771, and who was soon made sub-king of the duchy of Le Mans. The newly discussed evidence states that competition among the two kings was very high especially after they both had new male heirs; the analysis of the first stage of their careers, however, clearly shows that king Pippin III trained his two sons from the early 750s with no apparent preference, and that until 768 they were equally valued and supposed to rule the kingdom of the Franks evenly. This equality depends on the fact that they were born close together: Charlemagne in 748 and Carloman in either 749 or in 747, not in 751 as it is traditionally stated. The last part of the essay finally explores, on the basis of written evidence, the hypothesis that Carloman, not Charlemagne, was Pippin III’s first born, and reassesses some political features that deal with this hypothesis, providing evidence of it
Review article to Warren C. Brown, Beyond the Monastery Walls. Lay men and women in early medieval legal formulas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. xiv + 385 inc. 11 ill., ISBN 978-I-108-47958-5, £ 29.99.
No full textThe review highlights the main features of the book concerning the uses of formulae and the transmission of this documentary culture in early medieval France
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