Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond Maddalena Betti Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Francesco Borri University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy Stefano Gasparri Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Firenze University Press Florence 2024 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3

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Imperial frontiers have been a topic of research and a source of fascination for decades. This volume deals with the Carolingian Empire, particularly Italy, collecting fifteen essays on the military, economic and social function of the frontier; how it was ideologically conceived and physically realized from Saxony to Catalonia across the Alps and the Danube. In a rich diversity of perspectives and themes, the concept of frontier is used in its political, ideological, normative, and cultural meanings. Aim of the volume is to offer a comprehensive picture of Carolingian frontiers against the background of the broad debate on empires and frontiers.

Imperial frontiers have been a topic of research and a source of fascination for decades. This volume deals with the Carolingian Empire, particularly Italy, collecting fifteen essays on the military, economic and social function of the frontier; how it was ideologically conceived and physically realized from Saxony to Catalonia across the Alps and the Danube. In a rich diversity of perspectives and themes, the concept of frontier is used in its political, ideological, normative, and cultural meanings. Aim of the volume is to offer a comprehensive picture of Carolingian frontiers against the background of the broad debate on empires and frontiers.

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Contents Carolingian frontiers: Italy and beyond. An introduction On empires and frontiers Frontier practices in the early Carolingian Period A blurred frontier: the territories between the kingdom of Asturias and al-Andalus (eighth and ninth centuries) I. Italian boundaries I: northern frontiersWaiting for the barbarians: the frontiers of the Ostrogothic Kingdom during the reign of TheodericFrom passageway to frontier: the Alps in Carolingian timesServing two masters. Istria between Venice and the Franks in the 8th and 9th centuries II. The frontiers of others I: Saxony and LothringiaFrontiers and fortifications in the Carolingian imperial imaginationFrontiers as zones of public overinvestment: fortresses, ditches, and walls in the northern frontier of the Carolingian Empire III. Italian boundaries II: southern frontiersRepresenting the space of papal government at the time of Lothar I: the claim of fines RomaniBorder pacts and frontier areas in Carolingian ItalyCultural boundaries, epigraphic boundariesCarolingian koinè and documentary frontiers of the kingdom of Italy IV. The frontiers of others II: from Catalunya to the DanubeFiscal resources and political competition on the periphery of the Carolingian empire: some Catalan examples (9th century)The Carolingian south-eastern frontierDivided by the Danube? Political boundaries and cultural continuitiesConlusions Index of Persons Index of Place Names and Ethnonyms

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