Italy and Early Medieval Europe Papers for Chris Wickham

A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans studies based on close archival work, to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in the transition from Roman to medieval Europe, and the value of comparing this across time and space.

1 - Social Cohesion, Breaks and Transformations in Italy, 535-600
2 - The Roman Origins of the Northumbrian Kingdom
3 - Langobardi in the Sixth Century without Paulus Diaconus
4 - Boni homini in Northern Iberia: a Particularity that Raises some General Questions
5 - Gender and the Gift: the Giving and Receiving of Women in Early Medieval England
6 - Still Fussing about Feudalism
7 - Travail, Salaire et Pauvreté au Moyen Âge
8 - Bastard Feudalism and the Framing of Thirteenth-Century England
9 - Changing Rural Settlements in the Early Middle Ages in Central and northern Italy: Towards the Centralization of Rural Property
10 - Between the City and the Countryside: the Aristocracy in the March of Tuscia (late tenth - early twelfth centuries)
11 - Riflessioni sulle Economie dei Secoli X e XI: Palermo e Roma a Confronto
12 - Reframing Norman Italy
13 - Labour Services and Peasant Obligations in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Southern Italy
14 - An Arena of Abuses and Competing Powers: Rome in Cassiodorus'
15 - Topographic Memory
16 - The Damnatio Memoriae of Pope Constantine II (767-768)
17 - Fame and its Vagaries in the Middle Ages
18 - Archives and Social Change in Italy, c.900-1100: the Evidence of Dispute Notices
19 - Disputed Possession, Legal Process and Memory in Thirteenth-Century Lombardy: the case of Guastalla and Luzzara (1193-1227)
20 - 'To Destroy a City so Great and Remarkable': Lamentation, Panegyric and the Idea of the Medieval City
21 - 'Framing' and Lighting: Another Angle on Transition
22 - Lands and Lights in Early Medieval Rome
23 - Garden Cities in Medieval Italy
24 - Chestnuts in Charters: Evidence for Specialised Production in Tenth-Century Genoa and Milan
25 - The 'Life Aquatic' on Athos in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
26 - Public Powers, Private Powers and the Exploitation of Metals for Coinage: the Case of Medieval Tuscany
27 - Coinage and the Tributary Mode of Production
28 - Comparing Medieval Iceland with Other Regions: Problems and Possibilities
29 - Early Medieval Wales and Calabria: a Mountain of Problems?
30 - Devozione longobarda
31 - Cursing and Curing, or The Practice of Christianity in Eighth-Century Rome
32 - Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Views on Islam and on Jih?d, c.900 CE: a Papal Connection?
33 - The Two Republics: Ecclesia and the Public Domain in the Carolingian World
34 - Developing Definitions of Reform in the Church in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
35 - Memory, Gift and Politics: Matilda of Tuscany and her Donations to St Peter
36 - Como and Padua

Ross Balzaretti is an Associate Professor and Head of History at the University of Nottingham. He completed his PhD at University College London and held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, for which he is now an ambassador. In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Julia Barrow is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. She previously worked at the universities of Birmingham - where she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - and Nottingham. Her research interests lie chiefly in Church history in England and Western Europe to 1300. Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University. She completed her PhD under Chris Wickham's supervision at Birmingham, and remained there holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has published several books and numerous articles on Italian, gender and medical history.