IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 720: Rethinking Medieval Italy, V: Cities and Civic Assemblies in Medieval Southern Italy - Continuity or Change?
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | George Dameron, Department of History, Saint Michael's College, Vermont Valerie Ramseyer, Department of History, Wellesley College, Massachusetts |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Brenda M. Bolton, University of London |
| Paper 720-a | Bari: St Nicholas and Civic Assemblies (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 720-b | Civic Consciousness in Medieval Southern Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 720-c | Community and Citizenship in Southern Italy, c.1100-c.1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This panel is the fifth of seven (six plus one round table discussion) under the general theme, 'Rethinking Medieval Italy'. It re-examines why northern and southern Italy went separate ways: why did cities in southern Italy fail to become autonomous political units, as their counterparts in the north did, and what role did the Norman kings play in the stifling of cities and civic institutions? Louis Hamilton's paper demonstrates how 11th-century Bari mimicked in many ways development in pre-communal northern cities. The papers of Paul Oldfield and Joanna Drell question whether cities in southern Italy actually lost autonomy or went into decline. Cities survived and even thrived under the Norman kings. |