Rome and the Others
Francesco M. Veronese
Within their projects of religious beliefs and practices’ standardization, Carolingian rulers looked to Rome as an area providing authoritative traditions, norms objects. Roman saints relics perfectly matched the politics on sanctity its exploitation. Yet were not only ones circulating in empire. For instance, different origins assigned important roles social political integration Italian local elites within landscape power. This chapter focusses north-eastern Italy, underlining how bishops counts used promoted by means hagiographical texts order raise consensus for themselves authority they represented. First I consider use Verona tools self-legitimation pursuing personal aims. Then turn role hagiography dispute primacy between Aquileia Grado, a case contrasting re-elaborations previous traditions support claims present. Finally, attention is paid transfer holy body Cysoing marquis Eberhard Friuli, strategies memorial reshaping connected it.
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