1st Edition
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts Memories of the Vanquished
Introduction
1. The Origin of the Lombards
2. The migrations and the settlement in Pannonia
3. The Lombard invasion of Italy
4. The rule of the Lombards in Italy until King Liudprand
5. The last Lombard kings
6. Charlemagne’s conquest of the Lombard kingdom
7. The revolt of north-east Italy’s Lombards
8. Opinions about Charlemagne
9. The imperial coronation of Charlemagne
10. The rule of Pippin
11. Pippin’s expedition against the Avars
12. The rule of Bernard
13. Louis the Pious and his sons
14. The Archbishop of Milan teaches Louis the Pious and Lothar a lesson
15. The death of Louis the Pious and the civil war among his sons
16. Disasters provoked by a Carolingian in Italy
17. Louis II punishes a rebel in Burgundy
18. Louis II’s expedition against the Muslims in Benevento
19. A campaign against the Muslims in Calabria
20. Holy war against the Muslims
21. The siege and conquest of Bari
22. Emperor Louis II’s captivity
23. The last years of Emperor Louis II and his death
24. The Conflicts for the acquisition of the Italian Kingdom
Biography
Luigi Andrea Berto is Professor of Medieval History at Western Michigan University, USA. His research focuses on Medieval Italy and the Mediterranean, with a special interest in the use of the past in the medieval and modern periods, and the relationships between Christians and Muslims.
‘This book, a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Italian history, is a compilation of Carolingian Italian texts telling the story of the Lombards, the conquest of the Lombard kingdom by Charlemagne in 774 and the presence of the Franks in the Italian peninsula. [Luigi Andrea Berto], a specialist in early medieval Italian history, provides us with a complete, rigorous and useful work to immerse oneself in the subject.’ – Le Moyen Age, CXXIX [Translated from the French original].
