Heath The Lombards in Italy

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80270-428-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch

This book provides a new analysis of the Lombards in Italy from their first arrival in the peninsula towards the end of the sixth century until the end of their contribution to Italian politics in the eleventh century. Focusing on the environmental and human parameters of the Lombard contribution to Italy in the Early Middle Ages, Heath provides a new and up-to-date analysis. Rather than considering traditional political developments alone, the book weaves together discussion of the spatial aspects of Lombard settlement; their impact on urban and rural landscapes; their responses to religious praxis and belief, and through this, the creation of a revived identity in a new context, which was embodied in law—one of their most enduring legacies. The book restores the Lombards to a position of central importance in early medieval Italy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heath, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Contributor: Christopher Heath Christopher Heath is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of several works on the Lombards in Italy, including The Narrative Worlds of Paul the Deacon (2017) and The Age of Liutprand (2025).