Preface Giuseppe Albertoni University of Trento, Italy Manuel Fauliri University of Trento, Italy Leonardo Sernagiotto University of Padua, Italy This is a section of Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3) by Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto Firenze University Press Florence 2025 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3.02

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This short preface is divided into two parts. The first aims to recall the research project Ruling in hard times. Patterns of power and practices of government in the making of Carolingian Italy, to which this volume belongs. The second part recalls the epistemological principles common to the various essays and, in particular, highlights an aspect that characterises them: the desire to move away from a stereotypical opposition between local elites and the “transalpine” Reichsaristokratie that has long dominated the study of Carolingian Italy.

 Middle Ages ninth century Carolingian Italy emperor Lothar I elite aristocracy.

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