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Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond

  • Edited by:
  • Maddalena Betti,
  • Francesco Borri,
  • Stefano Gasparri,

Imperial frontiers have been a topic of research and a source of fascination for decades. This volume deals with the Carolingian Empire, particularly Italy, collecting fifteen essays on the military, economic and social function of the frontier; how it was ideologically conceived and physically realized from Saxony to Catalonia across the Alps and the Danube. In a rich diversity of perspectives and themes, the concept of frontier is used in its political, ideological, normative, and cultural meanings. Aim of the volume is to offer a comprehensive picture of Carolingian frontiers against the background of the broad debate on empires and frontiers.

  • Keywords:
  • Frontiers,
  • Borders,
  • Carolingian Empire,
  • Imperialism,
  • 9th Century,
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Maddalena Betti

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3666-598X

Francesco Borri

University of Venice Ca' Foscari, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3385-2288

Stefano Gasparri

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1374-504X

Maddalena Betti obtained her PhD from the doctoral school in Historical Sciences of the University of Padua, in co-supervision with Université Paris 1 – Panthèon-Sorbonne. Her main research interests concern the political and ecclesiastical history of Central Europe in the early medieval centuries. More recently she has dealt with papal history and the history of the city of Rome particularly investigating the forms of Roman aristocratic identity between the 8th and 10th centuries.

Francesco Borri is Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Among his most recent publications: Alboino (Viella 2016), ‘Mascaras, cadáveres y otras cosas preciosas’, in Cohesión Social y Transformaciones Identitarias, ed. C F. Ruchesi (Miño y Dávila 2023) and ‘The Year of the Red Moon’, Lovecraft Annual, 17 (2023).

Stefano Gasparri is Emeritus Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. His most recent monographs are Italia longobarda. Il regno, i Franchi, il papato (Laterza 2012); Voci dai secoli oscuri (Carocci 2017), and Desiderio (Salerno 2019).
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pp.1-8


Francesco Borri

On empires and frontiers
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pp.9-36


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pp.37-59


I. Italian boundaries I: northern frontiers
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pp.95-113


II. The frontiers of others I: Saxony and Lothringia
III. Italian boundaries II: southern frontiers
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pp.193-205


Flavia De Rubeis

Cultural boundaries, epigraphic boundaries
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pp.207-233


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pp.235-257


IV. The frontiers of others II: from Catalunya to the Danube

Neven Budak

The Carolingian south-eastern frontier
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pp.273-287


Giuseppe Albertoni

Conlusions
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pp.307-316


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Book Title

Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond

Editors

Maddalena Betti, Francesco Borri, Stefano Gasparri

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354

Publication Year

2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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