Under the aegis of the saints. Hagiography and power in early Carolingian northern Italy
Giorgia Vocino
In the transition from Lombard to Carolingian period, hagiography came play a fundamental role in strategies of legitimation and representation episcopal churches regnum Langobardorum. This article gives an overview features, choices, tastes models sanctity characteristic Italian hagiography, against background local contexts political competition. It demonstrates that territories under Frankish rule, represented chief instrument hands ecclesiastical elites shape use past light concerns present.
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