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Zusatztext This sizeable volume is a very worthy collection to honour the impact of Prefessor Chris Wickhamthere's something here for everyone, and certainly much to stimulate the Wickham tastebuds! Informationen zum Autor Ross Balzaretti is an Associate Professor and Head of History at the University of Nottingham. He completed his PhD at University College London and held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, for which he is now an ambassador. In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.Julia Barrow is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. She previously worked at the universities of Birmingham - where she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - and Nottingham. Her research interests lie chiefly in Church history in England and Western Europe to 1300.Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University. She completed her PhD under Chris Wickham's supervision at Birmingham, and remained there holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has published several books and numerous articles on Italian, gender and medical history. Klappentext A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology, set within a broader context of studies on major transitions in Europe from c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors also reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans the transition from Roman to medieval Europe. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology, set within a broader context of studies on major transitions in Europe from c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors also reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans the transition from Roman to medieval Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Italy and the Early Middle Ages: a Journey through Time and Space Chris - An Appreciation Lodare 'il Wickham' Part One - Lords and Peasants: Frames for the Middle Ages 1: Walter Pohl: Social Cohesion, Breaks and Transformations in Italy, 535-600 2: Ian Wood: The Roman Origins of the Northumbrian Kingdom 3: Patrick Geary: Langobardi in the Sixth Century without Paulus Diaconus 4: Wendy Davies: Boni homini in Northern Iberia: a Particularity that Raises some General Questions 5: Pauline Stafford: Gender and the Gift: the Giving and Receiving of Women in Early Medieval England 6: Susan Reynolds: Still Fussing about Feudalism 7: Laurent Feller: Travail, Salaire et Pauvreté au Moyen Âge 8: Peter Coss: Bastard Feudalism and the Framing of Thirteenth-Century England 9: Marco Valenti: Changing Rural Settlements in the Early Middle Ages in Central and northern Italy: Towards the Centralization of Rural Property 10: Maria Elena Cortese: Between the City and the Countryside: the Aristocracy in the March of Tuscia (late tenth - early twelfth centuries) 11: Alessandra Molinari: Riflessioni sulle Economie dei Secoli X e XI: Palermo e Roma a Confronto 12: Sandro Carocci: Reframing Norman Italy 13: Graham A. Loud: Labour Services and Peasant Obligations in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Southern Italy Part Two - Texts and Memories 14: Cristina La Rocca: An Arena of Abuses and Competing Powers: Rome in Cassiodorus' 15: Lisa Fentress: Topographic Memory 16: Rosamond McKitterick: The Damnatio Memoriae of Pope Constantine II (767-768) 17: Antonio Sennis: Fame and its Vagaries in the Middle Ages 18: Marios Costambeys: Archives and Social Change in Italy, c.900-1100: the Evidence of Dispute Notices 19: Edward Coleman: Disputed Possession, Legal Process and Memory in Thirteenth-Century Lombardy: the case of Guastalla and Luzzara (1193-1227) 20: Paul Oldfield: 'To Destroy a City so Great and Remarkable': Lamentation, Panegyric and the Idea of the Medieval City Part Three - Economi...
