Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts
Department
History
Document Type
Book
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Description
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne's conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian peninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers composed their works allows readers to focus on various aspects of this period and to highlight the different ways the vanquished remembered Carolingian rule in Italy. The "memories" of these authors are organized by topic, ranging from the origin of the Lombards to the conflicts that broke out among the Carolingians after Louis II died in 875. Besides presenting the English translation and the original Latin text of the excerpts from Italian Carolingian historical works, the volume also contains English translations of the same events recorded in Frankish and papal narrative texts. In this way it is possible to compare different memories about the same episode or topic. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the Lombards and Carolingians, as well as all those interested in medieval Europe.
Call number in WMU's library
DG515 .F73 2021 (Waldo Library, WMU Authors Collection, First Floor)
ISBN
9780367560614
Publication Date
2021
Disciplines
European History | Medieval History
Citation for published book
Berto, Luigi Andrea, Editor and Translator. Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts : Memories of the Vanquished. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Recommended Citation
Berto, Luigi Andrea, "Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts" (2021). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 820.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/820