Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Abbreviations 7
4. Preface 9
5. 1 Introduction. Discordant Minds and Hostile Nations 11
6. 2 Morbidity and Murder. Lombard Kingship’s Violent Uncertainties 568-774 63
7. 3 Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Lombard Italy (c600-700) 87
8. 4 Troubled Times. Narrating Conquest and Defiance between Charlemagne and Bernard (774-818) 117
9. 5 ‘Nec patiaris populum Domini ab illis divinitus fulminandis Agarenis discerpi’ Handling ‘Saracen’ Violence in Ninth-Century Southern Italy 149
10. 6 Formosus and the ‘Synod of the Corpse’ Tenth Century Rome in History and Memory 185
11. 7 Sex, Denigration and Violence. A Representation of Political Competition between Two Aristocratic Families in Ninth Century Italy 205
12. 8 ‘Italy and her [German] Invaders’ Otto III’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Early Tours of Italy – Pomp, Generosity and Ferocity 243
13. 9 ‘I Predict a Riot’ What Were the Parmense Rebelling Against in 1037? 265
14. 10 The Strange Case of Deusdedit and Pandulf. Two Accounts of Honorius II’s Election 299
15. Afterword 325
16. Index 337