The Land, the Merchant and the King: Economy and Society in the 8th Langobardic Century

Publisher: BUP – Basilicata University Press

Series: Mediterranean Worlds

Pages: X, 184

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-25836

Abstract: Early medieval economy is one of the most frequented topic by modern historiography and Italy, the heart of the old Roman Empire, represents undoubtedly a privileged area where we can examine the structural transformations that occurred in the passage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. This study tries to reconstruct the complex events of the economy in the Longobard period, specifically between the end of the seventh century and the Carolingian conquest, analyzing the question both in terms of production and market, attempting to highlight its structural convergences, in a broader political-social perspective. Liutprando's age constitutes the core of the analysis and the central-northern regions of the Longobard kingdom are the scaffolding on which this work is built but, in an attempt to better understand some phenomena by comparing them, there is no shortage of forays into the socio-economic structures of a political space for a long time essentially autonomous such as the Longobard duchy-principality of Benevento.

Summary:

Prefazione di Chris Wickham

Introduzione

Capitolo I. L’economia rurale e la curtis longobarda

Capitolo II. Mercati, moneta e società

Capitolo III. Dopo il 774: “Longobardexit”?