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The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert - A Critical Edition and Translation of 'Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium' (Paperback)
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The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert - A Critical Edition and Translation of 'Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium' (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Medieval Translations
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This volume presents the analysis, English translation, and
critical edition of the Latin text of The Little History of the
Lombards of Benevento, thus offering an important contribution for
a better understanding of early medieval southern Italian (and
Mediterranean) history. In the 840s, having passed the danger of
subjugation by Charlemagne, southern Italy's Lombards experienced a
bloody civil war that put an end to their unity and turned southern
Italy into the playground of several competing powers: Lombard
lords, the Neapolitans, the Frankish and the Byzantine Empires, the
Muslims, and, sometimes, even the papacy. At the end of the ninth
century, the Cassinese monk Erchempert composed a chronicle about
this period that blamed the southern Lombard leaders for the
terrible crisis of southern Italy. It was Erchempert's desire that
future generations could learn from the folly of their forbearers,
and his chronicle has since become the most relevant source for
southern Italy between the 770s and the 880s. The book will appeal
to scholars and students of chronicles, Lombards, Franks,
Byzantines, and Muslims in early medieval Italy, as well as all
those interested in medieval Europe.
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