IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 242: Frontiers and Crossroads in Italy, II: The Italian South In-Between
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'At the Crossroads of Empires: The Longobard Church of Sant'Ambrogio at Montecorvino Rovella (Salerno), Italy', University of Birmingham |
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| Organiser: | Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Edoardo Manarini, Deutsches Historisches Institut, Roma |
| Paper 242-a | Monastic Border Communities in Southern Italy: Montecassino and San Vincenzo al Volturno between Lombards and Carolingians (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 242-b | Franks and Byzantines: The Italian South as Contact Zone, 842-75 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 242-c | The Wisdom of the Virgin: Mary as Cultural Mediator between Carolingians and Langobards in Langobardia Minor (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Giulia Zornetta will provide insight into the gradual Carolingian takeover of the two most important monasteries placed at the border between the northern kingdom of Italy and the southern principate of Benevento, San Vincenzo al Volturno, and Montecassino. She will then analyse this further drawing on the relatively well-documented dispute over Abbot Poto in the late 8th century. Clemens Gantner will continue from that point and discuss Carolingian policies and politics with regards to the Beneventan/Salernitan south as it developed during the rule of Louis II of Italy, the most active Carolingian ruler in the area. Special attention shall be laid on the relations with the Byzantine Empire, ever keen on regaining influence in one of its former dominions, oscillating between co-operation and conflict. Francesca Dell'Acqua will then speak about the visual representation of the Virgin Mary at the local church Sant'Ambrogio alla Rienna near Salerno, in a border zone between Langobardia Minor and the Carolingian Empire. There, the Theotokos was flanked by four principal Milanese saints, a unique display in the Italian south, which prompts the question of northern 'influence' in this transitional region of the south. |