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Frontiers as zones of public overinvestment: fortresses, ditches, and walls in the northern frontier of the Carolingian Empire

  • Marco Franzoni

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,
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Marco Franzoni

University of Verona, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-5807-1248

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  • Publication Year: 2024
  • Pages: 161-174
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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Frontiers as zones of public overinvestment: fortresses, ditches, and walls in the northern frontier of the Carolingian Empire

Authors

Marco Franzoni

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3.12

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

Book Title

Carolingian Frontiers: Italy and Beyond

Editors

Maddalena Betti, Francesco Borri, Stefano Gasparri

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

354

Publication Year

2024

Copyright Information

© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0416-3

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0415-6

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979-12-215-0416-3

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979-12-215-0418-7

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Reti Medievali E-Book

Series ISSN

2704-6362

Series E-ISSN

2704-6079

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