Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy

The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c. 1100
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-582-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy. Though the Hucpoldings have not received extensive treatment in previous anglophone scholarship, they had a key influence in much of what was happening in this period. Manarini’s groundbreaking study highlights the dramatic geopolitical changes surrounding this kinship group in the kingdom of Italy across three crucial centuries. The research reconstructs political events associated with every identifiable member of the kinship, as well as inquiring into their patrimony and their networks of relationships and patronage. Finally, it examines the distinctive characteristics of the group to gain a clearer picture of the nature of their power, their memory strategies and the shared perceptions and self-awareness of group members.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manarini, Edoardo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prefatory Note

Acknowledgements

Maps and Tables

Abbreviations

Preface by Simon MacLean

Introduction

Part I Kinship and Political Relations

1. The Hucpoldings’ Involvement in the Political Struggles of the Kingdom of Italy (847–945)

Hucpold, Count Palatine of Louis II

Faction and Endeavour: Hubald I

The Aristocratic Career of Boniface dux et marchio between Rudolf II and Hugh of Arles

Bibliography

2. Family Patterns and Political Affirmation (945–1012)

The Duchy of Spoleto and Tuscany

Eastern Emilia and the Exarchate of Ravenna

The March of Tuscany

Bibliography

3. The Local Basis of Power in a Wide Political Network (1012–1116)

Hugh II and His Lineage in Bologna and Ferrara

The Ties that Bind: Boniface of Canossa and Kinship Networks across the Apennines

The Counts of Romena-Panico

Bibliography

Part II Properties and Patronage

4. The Exarchate

Land Possession and Relations in the Ninth Century

The Troubled Years, c.960–c.1000

Persistence in the comitatus Faentinus and the 1034 Pact

Bibliography

5. The March of Tuscany

The Family Group Estates in the Ninth Century

Marchisal Fisc and Monastic Foundations

Centres of Power, Patronage Networks

Bibliography

6. Ruling on the Border: Landed Possessions from the Po Valley to the Apennines in Bononia’s Diocese

Acquisitions, Exchanges, Organization of Lands in the Tenth Century

Landed Wealth and Hegemony

Lands, People and Castles (900–1100)

Estate Management: Between Territorial Consolidation and Dispersal

Bibliography

Part III Power, Relationships, Memory

7. Kinship, Self-awareness and Memory

Onomastic Choices

The lex Ribuaria profession

The Role of Monastic Foundations: Family Memory, Politics and Identity

Kinship Representations between Perceptions and Self-awareness

Evolution and Hierarchy of Kinship Cohesion

Bibliography

8. Features and Practices of Power: From Officials to Lords

Firsts Steps at Court: Offices and Responsibilities in the Kingdom of Italy

The Marchisal Achievement and the Gaining of Ecclesiastical Offices

Dinastizzazione of the Title of comes and the Development of Seigneurial Rule in a Border Region

Bibliography

9. Discontinuity between Public Powers and Private Seigneurial Rule

Bibliography

Genealogical Tables

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Manarini, Edoardo
Edoardo Manarini is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin. His research revolves around Western European medieval political institutions, focusing on Italy’s elite kindreds and their interconnection with regnal power, the links between kings and abbeys in Lombard and Carolingian Italy, the dynamics of memory and monastic production of written strategies.