Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy
Edoardo Manarini
This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy. Though Hucpoldings have not received extensive treatment previous anglophone scholarship, they had key influence much what was happening this period. Manarini’s groundbreaking highlights dramatic geopolitical changes surrounding kinship kingdom Italy across three crucial centuries. The research reconstructs political events associated with every identifiable member kinship, as well inquiring into their patrimony networks relationships patronage. Finally, it examines distinctive characteristics to gain clearer picture nature power, memory strategies shared perceptions self-awareness members.
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