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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Lombards"”.
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The Relations of Saint Gregory the Great, while Pope, with the Imperial Exarch of Ravenna (590-604): Based on the Correspondences
… years, Italy had been divided between the Lombards and the Empire: The king of the Lombards lived at Pavia, the Imperial Exarch at Ravenna. The Emperor of Byzantium ruled over Romagna, Ferrara, and five cities on the Adrxatic, three subordinate provinces of Rome, Venice and Naples with …
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A Matter of Faith and Works: Byzantine Leaders and Christian Leadership in the Historia Langobardorum
… rely on it for much of what they know about the Lombards and Italy from the sixth to eighth centuries. While historians have had much to say about what the Historia tells us about the Lombards and other groups, very little has been said about the presence and portrayal of Byzantine figures within …
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The Female Life Course at San Zeno: An Exploration of Women as the Makers and Keepers of Family Memory in Lombard Italy
… Deacon's Historia Langobardorum ("History of the Lombards"). My project also explores how legal texts attempted to regulate women's reproductive lives, in light of how women organized funerary spaces and chose to commemorate motherhood. Ultimately, this study calls for medieval Italian archaeology …
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A dove song : the "miraculous" foundation and growth of Bobbio Abbey
… primary sources on Columbanus, the Abbey and the Lombards was gathered. The ensuing data was then contextualized with the help of recent historical, philological and archaeological research in English and Italian. The settlement of new ethnic groups in former Roman territories represented a …
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Clerics, Courts, and Legal Culture in Early Medieval Italy, c. 650 - c. 900
This dissertation examines how clerics in the Lombard and Carolingian Kingdom of Italy prosecuted disputes with each other. It argues for and explores two core features of the clerical legal culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late …