Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I Giuseppe Albertoni University of Trento, Italy Manuel Fauliri University of Trento, Italy Leonardo Sernagiotto University of Padua, Italy Firenze University Press Florence 2025 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3

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This volume collects the proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento from 13 to 15 October 2022, as part of the initiatives of the PRIN 2017 project Ruling in hard times. Patterns of power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy. Based on an analysis of the lexicon of sources and some case studies, the essays collected here intend to reconstruct the forms of political and social prominence and the networks that connected – or opposed – those who, at different levels, exercised forms of power and control over people and territories. The aim of the book is to reveal the web that linked the different levels of elites in the age of Lothar, a web that has often remained invisible.

This volume collects the proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento from 13 to 15 October 2022, as part of the initiatives of the PRIN 2017 project Ruling in hard times. Patterns of power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy. Based on an analysis of the lexicon of sources and some case studies, the essays collected here intend to reconstruct the forms of political and social prominence and the networks that connected – or opposed – those who, at different levels, exercised forms of power and control over people and territories. The aim of the book is to reveal the web that linked the different levels of elites in the age of Lothar, a web that has often remained invisible.

 Early Middle Ages Carolingian Italy Lothar I Aristocracy Social Networks
Contents Preface I. Acting as aristocrats, aspiring to the aristocracyBeing an aristocrat in the kingdom of Italy in the age of Lothar ILothar I and the visibility of the female aristocracyWriting for aristocrats, writing as aristocrats: notarial strategies and graphic self-representation in the documentation of the elites of the regnumMonasteries in the middle? Local elites and monastic landscapes in Carolingian LombardyAristocratic land ownership. Land ownership between the centre and the hinterland as represented in the language of notarial deeds II. Aristocratic networks between center and peripheriesA Carolingian suite: the Supponids in Italy until the death of Lothar (814-855)So far, so close. Lothar I and the interweaving of relationships between the aristocracies of Veneto and AlemanniaAristocracies in the Tuscany of Lothar I: birth and structuring of a social networkAiming at the aristocracy: social mobility in Lucca at the time of Lothar IThe aristocracies of Rome in the age of LotharWho wrote the life of Leo IV? Gratian, the superista, and his networkAristocracy in Ravenna in the age of Lothar I: integration and historical memoryFraming the Beneventan aristocracy in the first half of the ninth century Conclusions Index of Persons Index of Place Names and Ethnonyms

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