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Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy - Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700-900 (Paperback)
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Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy - Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700-900 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
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Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine
hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a
barometer of social and political change in central Italy.
Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages
revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political
power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout
its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its
early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict
limits. Other parties - local elites, as well as Lombard and then
Carolingian rulers - were often more important in structuring power
in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book
reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early
medieval politics, as a conduit for others' interests, and a player
in its own right.
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