Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
About the Book Series
The enduring culture of Italy has sustained and transformed human life and experience throughout its long history. Undoubtedly the transformations of the peninsula in the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods are redolent of change and challenge for societies and individuals. This series aims to bridge the gap between Anglophone and Italian scholarship, and more broadly to make works of Italian scholars better known throughout Europe. The series aims to present the best high quality research on the Italian peninsula and the Central Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It covers the period from the end of the Western Roman Empire to the Ottonians in Italy encompassing Ostrogothic, Lombard and Carolingian Italy. An important aim of this series is to encourage cross-disciplinarity in research associated not only with history, but also archaeology, art history, religious studies and all cognate disciplines. In publishing scholarship from the Anglophone world and from Italy and beyond the series will encourage and deepen knowledge of the central Mediterranean in this fascinating formative period.
Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Heath, Robert Houghton
December 01, 2025
This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy. The contributors present a new critique of power that sustained both kingship and locally based elite networks throughout the Italian peninsula. A ...
River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD
1st Edition
By Marco Panato
December 01, 2025
This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period. Through the study of the relationship between river and society over time, it shows how the Carolingian conquest and other ...
Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy: The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c.1100
1st Edition
By Edoardo Manarini
December 01, 2025
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 ...
The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964
1st Edition
By Kriston R. Rennie
December 01, 2025
Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the ...
Weapon Manufacture and Authority on the Frontier of Late and Post-Roman Italy: Eastern Lake Como and the Insula Comacina
1st Edition
By Fabio Carminati, Andrea Mariani
September 02, 2025
This monograph presents a microstudy of a crucially important and profoundly revealing location: the territory around the modern city of Lecco, which lies on the eastern branch of Lake Como, in Lombardy (northern Italy). Contrary to ‘traditional’ reconstructions that present eastern Lake Como as a ...
Thefts of Relics in Italy: From Late Antiquity to the Central Middle Ages, 300–1150
1st Edition
By Marco Papasidero
June 19, 2025
With the birth of the cult of the saints, their relics became valuables whose possession would guarantee prestige, protection, and spiritual benefits to a town, church, or monastery. For this reason—at first with the aim of preserving the bodies of newly-executed martyrs from destruction and later ...