- Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond
- A cura di Maddalena Betti, Francesco Borri, Stefano Gasparri
Frontiers as zones of public overinvestment: fortresses, ditches, and walls in the northern frontier of the Carolingian Empire
- Marco Franzoni
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.12
The aim of this article is to analyse the infrastructural investments made by the Franks to pacify Saxony, and to secure the control of the Elbe River territories. I will mostly use the written sources of the Carolingian era that described, in various forms, the construction of new infrastructures and the conquest of the enemies’. I will also utilize the archaeological data, so as to be able to confirm the accounts of the written sources. Through this analysis I will highlight the central authority’s constant effort to control, protect and rule the newly conquered territories of Saxony and the Elbe.
- Keywords:
- Middle Ages,
- 8th-9th centuries,
- Saxon Frontier,
- Carolingian Empire,
- Danevirke,
- Franks,
- Slavs,
- Danes,
- Saxons,
- fortresse,
- ditches,
- walls,
University of Verona, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5807-1248
Informazioni sul capitolo
Titolo del capitolo
Frontiers as zones of public overinvestment: fortresses, ditches, and walls in the northern frontier of the Carolingian Empire
Autori
Marco Franzoni
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.12
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond
Curatori
Maddalena Betti, Francesco Borri, Stefano Gasparri
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
354
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0415-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0416-3
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0418-7
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079