The historiographical revision currently underway on the tenth century is focusing on the extraordinary vitality of the legal sphere and documentary practices. It was not just a matter of issuing new capitularies, of continuity and organisation (through the Liber Papiensis) of the rich Lombard and Carolingian heritage, or of standardising forms of juridical writings in parallel with the composition of the first collection of formularies in Italy (the Cartularium Langobardicum). Jurists and notaries, in an intense circulation of codices and comment of texts, made that law a living thing, and the lex in its most technical sense experienced unprecedented interest. This essay aims to investigate a couple of case studies relating to Ottonian and Salian Italy, showing how the tradition of Lombard law was invoked and at the same time adapted to the conditions of that time and also, to a considerable extent, for political purposes closely linked to the idea of kingship.
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Chapter Title
Mobility of texts and of codices. Lombard laws and Carolingian capitularies in legal practice of tenth- and early eleventh-century Italy
Authors
Gianmarco De Angelis, Stefan Esders
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1094-2.17
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Publication Year
2026
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Book Title
Repenser le Xe siècle. États des lieux et perspectives / Ripensare il X secolo. Bilanci e prospettive
Editors
Gianmarco De Angelis, Tiziana Lazzari
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Number of Pages
490
Publication Year
2026
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1094-2
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979-12-215-1093-5
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979-12-215-1094-2
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979-12-215-1096-6
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Reti Medievali E-Book
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2704-6362
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2704-6079