This volume is the first one in a collection connected to the PRIN project on Ruling in hard times. Patterns of Power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy. Its focus lays on bishops and their networks of relationships in late-8th and 9th-century Italy. The episcopal contribution to the inclusion of the Lombard kingdom in the Carolingian social and political landscape is especially analyzed from the perspective of the cultural exchanges (of ideas, texts, and manuscripts) that bishops created or used to carry out their public and pastoral duties. Each paper focuses on a specific episcopal figure or area, reconstructing the scope and extent of the relationships of which they were the pivot. The aim is to provide as comprehensive a picture as possible of the cultural networks that crossed Carolingian Italy and the ways in which bishops shaped and made use of them.
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Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese
Episcopal authority and networks in Carolingian times: recent approaches and perspectivespp.1-11
Laura Pani
Lothar’s manuscripts, manuscripts for Lothar, manuscripts of Lothar’s timepp.13-31
Miriam Rita Tessera
A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s reign?pp.33-65
Francesco Veronese
The struggle for (self-)integration. Manuscripts, liturgy and networks in Verona at the time of Bishop Ratold (c. 802-840/3)pp.67-90
Michael W. Heil
Canons, books of canons, and ecclesiastical judgments in Carolingian Italy: the Council of Mantua, 827pp.91-110
Edward M. Schoolman
Representations of Lothar I in the Liber pontificalis Ravennatispp.111-129
Edoardo Manarini
«Per Padum fluvium termino currente usque [...] Civitatem Novam atque Mutinam». Consolidation and affirmation of the Church of Modena and Its bishops in 9th-entury Carolingian Italypp.131-155
Paolo Tomei
Writing, textuality, politics in the Lucca of Bishops Berengar and Ambrose (837-852)pp.157-180
Maddalena Betti
The two versions of the life of Pope Sergius II in the Liber pontificalis. Anti-Frankish feeling in Rome after Louis II’s expedition of 844pp.181-198
Book Title
Networks of bishops, networks of texts
Book Subtitle
Manuscripts, legal cultures, tools of government in Carolingian Italy at the time of Lothar I
Editors
Gianmarco De Angelis, Francesco Veronese
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
232
Publication Year
2022
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-623-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-622-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-623-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-625-4
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079