My article is divided into two parts. It deals with two related but not overlapping themes, which share the common feature of addressing aspects of local domination that have hitherto been little studied. It is part of a collective research project begun in autumn 2023. The effort is to move away from the world of middle and high aristocracies, and to direct the analysis further downward: on the one hand, observing forms of domination that, due to their minute, small-scale character, have often escaped the attention of historians (the micro-lordship), and on the other hand, investigating characteristics of domination relations that reflect more clearly the perceptions of subordinates rather than those of the lords (the pervasiveness). In both cases, we are dealing with very long-term phenomena: in addition to analysing the knowledge currently available, the focus of my article will be on the question of whether for pervasiveness and mi-cro-lordships the history of the centuries considered in this volume was a history of change or continuity.
Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9989-6780
Titolo del capitolo
Micro-lordship and pervasiveness
Autori
Sandro Carocci
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1076-8.14
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
In Search of the High Middle Ages. Change and Continuity in 11th–12th-century Italy
Curatori
Alberto Cotza, Giuseppe Petralia
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
560
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Copyright
© 2026 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1076-8
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1075-1
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1076-8
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-1078-2
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079