Contrary to Lombard and Carolingian Italy, there was no Frankish aristocracy in Rome itself. This paper discusses the relations between the Roman aristocracies and the emperor, which need to be seen within the context of the history between the elites of the city and the papacy after the end of Byzantine rule in Rome. Such relations can explain the tensions between the aristocracies and the papacy, which played into the hands of Lothar as he himself tried to support the pro-Frankish elites whenever possible, to provide a counterweight to papal control.
University of Oxford, United Kingdom - ORCID: 0000-0002-0941-300X
Titolo del capitolo
The aristocracies of Rome in the age of Lothar
Autori
Veronica West-Harling
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3.14
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Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I
Curatori
Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
350
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
Copyright
© 2025 Author(s)
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Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0771-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0770-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0771-3
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0773-7
Collana
Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
e-ISSN della collana
2704-6079