Entangled Semantics of Power between Byzantium and the Italian Peninsula Worlds in Words (8th-13th Centuries)

Table of Contents

Foreword

François Bougard

Introduction

Luisa Andriollo, Alberto Cotza, Paolo Tomei

I. The 1192 Byzantine Chrysobull to Pisa: Diplomacy, Language and Graphic Cultures

1. Law and Diplomacy in the Chrysobull of 1192

Daphne Penna

2. Pisan Civitas and Byzantine Megalopolis in the Chrysobull of 1192: Spaces and Institutions

Luisa Andriollo

3. The Greek Script in the Chrysobull to Pisa: Some Observations

Carlo Pernigotti

4. The Representation of Power between the East and West: Material Aspects of the Chrysobull of 1192 to Pisa and Its Latin Translation

Maria Cristina Rossi

II. Political and Institutional Lexicon: Semantic Reshaping in Italian Medieval Societies

5. A Word in Two Worlds: baiulus/βαΐουλος (781-944)

Paolo Tomei

6. From the Emperor to the Saint. Re-shaping Comes Cortis / κόμης της κόρτης in Post-Byzantine Bari (11th-12th Centuries)

Nicolò Galluzzi

7. Δεκατεία: A Case-Study on Greek Fiscal Lexicon in 12th-Century Pisa

Alberto Cotza

III. Multilingualism in Documentary Sources from Medieval Italy

8. Graeca in Medieval Roman Documents

Serena Ammirati

9. Multilingualism in the Greek Documents of Norman Sicily.  A Latin Register of the Greek Villeins and Saracens of the Church of Patti: An Introduction

Francesca Potenza

Biography

Luisa Andriollo is a researcher in the Humanities Department of Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany. She is the author of a monograph on imperial administration, local societies and the role of the aristocracy in Constantinople (in French, 2017; winner of the Diehl medal, Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres). 

Alberto Cotza is Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy. His work examines cultural and political change in early medieval Italy, focusing on the evolution of historical writing in Tuscany and has published a book on the origins and developments of historiography in Medieval Tuscany in Italian (2021). 

Paolo Tomei is a researcher at the Università di Pisa, Italy. His research explores the material and symbolic structures of power, and the forms of political and social aggregation in Italy between the 6th and 13th centuries, with a focus on Tuscany. His publications include a monograph on aristocratic structures in the Lucca area (in Italian, 2019).