Cover
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
Discordant Minds and Hostile Nations
Christopher Heath and Robert Houghton
The State of the Field
This Volume
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Authors
2. Morbidity and Murder
Lombard Kingship's Violent Uncertainties 568-774
Christopher Heath
Law and Authority in Lombard Italy: The Historical Inheritance
The Space for Lombard Kingship
Alboin, Perctarit and Liutprand: Violence and Murder in the Court
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
3. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Lombard Italy (c600-700)*
Guido M. Berndt
Lombards Entering Italy
Insurgencies During the 'Warlord-decade'
Droctulf of Brescello: From Lombard Dux to Byzantine Hypostrategos
The Rise of the Lombard Kingdom: Flavius rex Authari
Insurgencies During the Reign of Agilulf
Insurgencies During the Time of Adaloald and Arioald
Insurgencies During the Reign of Rothari
Grimoald in a Lombard 'Game of Thrones'
Paul the Deacon's Prototype/Prefiguration of an Insurgent: Alahis, filius iniquitatis
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
4. Troubled Times
Narrating Conquest and Defiance between Charlemagne and Bernard (774-818)
Francesco Borri
Introduction
Ira Dei super omnes Langobardos
Roticauso inimico nostro
Splenduit Italia
Per tyrannidem imperio usurpare
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
5. 'Nec patiaris populum Domini ab illis divinitus fulminandis Agarenis discerpi'
Handling 'Saracen' Violence in Ninth-Century Southern Italy
Kordula Wolf
Talking and Writing About Violent 'Saracens'
Christian 'Counterviolence'.

Impacts and Consequences
Conclusions
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
6. Formosus and the 'Synod of the Corpse'
Tenth Century Rome in History and Memory*
David Barritt
Bad Ritual
Episcopal transfer
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
7. Sex, Denigration and Violence
A Representation of Political Competition between Two Aristocratic Families in Ninth Century Italy
Edoardo Manarini
The Epitome chronicorum Casinensium: A First Survey
Sex, Denigration and Violence at the Court of Louis II of Italy (844-875)
The Episode
A Biblical Model and Its Meaning
Where the Struggle Took Place
The Ordeal by Fire: Legislation and Narrative of the Proof of Truthfulness
Competition for Power and Political Struggle Among the Proceres Regni: Supponids vs Hucpoldings
A Queen and a Count Palatine of the Italian Kingdom
The iudiciaria Mutinensis and Boniface's Career
The Supponinds as Antagonists in Emilia
Louis II's Fiscal Policy Towards Queen Angelberga
'Any Press Is Good Press'
St Benedict in Adili: Territorial Coordinates for a Hypothesis of Localisation
Bibliography
Manuscripts
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
8. 'Italy and her [German] Invaders'
Otto III's and Frederick Barbarossa's Early Tours of Italy - Pomp, Generosity and Ferocity
Penelope Nash
Introduction
Imperial Consciousness
Adventus
The Legacy of Pippin
Rights of the King in Italy
Descent into Italy, Perceptions and Consequences: Otto III
Contemporary Views of Otto III's First Two Tours of Italy
Frederick Barbarossa
Barbarossa in Italy, According To Otto of Freising
What Really Happened on Barbarossa's First Tour of Italy
What Really Happened on Barbarossa's Second Tour of Italy.

Imperial Consciousness Remade
Adventus Rearranged and the Legacy of Pippin Questioned
The Rights of the King in Italy Overturned
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
9. 'I Predict a Riot'
What Were the Parmense Rebelling Against in 1037?
Robert Houghton
Sources
Parma c.1037
Identity of the Rioters
Causes of the Riot
Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
About the Author
10. The Strange Case of Deusdedit and Pandulf
Two Accounts of Honorius II's Election
Enrico Veneziani
The Letter of Cardinal Deusdedit: An Echo of the Official Roman Version of the Election?
Pandulf's Life of Honorius: An Artificial Account of the Election
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
About the Author
Afterword
Ross Balzaretti
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
About the Author
Index.