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POWER AND PATRONAGE IN
EARLY MEDIEVAL ITALY
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 through-
out 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, the first detailed study of the abbey in the
early Middle Ages, reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in
early medieval politics, as a conduit for others’ interests and as a player in its
own right.
MARIOS COSTAMBEYS is Lecturer in History in the School of History at
the University of Liverpool.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
Fourth Series
General Editor:
ROSAMOND MC KITTERICK
Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College
Advisory Editors:
CHRISTINE CARPENTER
Professor of Medieval English History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of New Hall
JONATHAN SHEPARD
The series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought was inaugurated by
G. G. Coulton in 1921; Professor Rosamond McKitterick now acts as General
Editor of the Fourth Series, with Professor Christine Carpenter and Dr Jonathan
Shepard as Advisory Editors. The series brings together outstanding work by
medieval scholars over a wide range of human endeavour extending from
political economy to the history of ideas.
For a list of titles in the series, see end of book.
POWER AND PATRONAGE IN
EARLY MEDIEVAL ITALY
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