The Carolingian South turns the Frankish world upside down by taking as its subject the lands of the Carolingian empire south of the Loire and the Alps. It assembles an international group of scholars from different disciplines to examine how the Carolingians defined and were defined by this region. This book asks how Carolingian power was created and negotiated in the south. It views the Frankish empire from the perspective of the Christian and Muslim polities of the Mediterranean, while also following the movement of people and ideas through the endlessly fascinating world that they made.

Table des matières :

The Carolingian South: Introduction – Sam Ottewill-Soulsby and Graeme Ward

Part I: Agents and institutions
1. What’s Carolingian about the kingdoms of the Carolingian Midi? Structures of power in Aquitaine and Provence – Fraser McNair
2. The material impact of the Carolingian empire in the Spanish March: A relational approach – Carlos Tejerizo García
3. Entangled competitions on the fringes of the Carolingian South-East: Rethinking the Council of Mantua (827) – Francesco Veronese
4. Northeastern Italy in the early Carolingian period: Archaeological perspectives on the integration of a border area – Yuri A. Marano
5. Lopsided legacy: Autonomy, relics, and Carolingian Dalmatia – Shane Cavlovic

Part II: Watching the Carolingian South
6. Roman perceptions of the Carolingian world in the ninth century – Rosamond McKitterick
7. Asserting political authority in Lombard Southern Italy: Adelchis of Benevento and Emperor Louis II – Giulia Zornetta
8. ‘All the kings who reign in Francia are called Charles’: The Carolingians in the eyes of al-Andalus – Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

Part III: Carolingian Gothic
9. Visigothic dusk: The cities of Septimania after the seventh century – Javier Martínez Jiménez
10. Rethinking the Visigothic refugees – Graeme Ward
11. Learning from the vanquished? Visigothic legal texts in the empire of the Franks – Karl Ubl
12. Rejecting renovatio? Cultural and intellectual interactions between the Iberian Christian kingdoms and the Carolingians – Gaelle Bosseman

Part IV: Writing the Carolingian South
13. The taming of the south: Aquitaine, history and character in the poems of Ermoldus Nigellus – Carey Fleiner
14. Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Imperium, exegesis, and the Breve Commemoratorium de casis Dei – Daniel Reynolds
15. The Carolingian legacy in Aquitanian historical culture (eighth-twelfth centuries) – Julien Bellarbre

Informations pratiques :

The Carolingian South, éd. Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, Graeme Ward, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2026 ; 1 vol., 464 p. ISBN : 978-1-52617-630-1. Prix : GBP 95,00

Source : Manchester University Press