Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (<i>c</i>.885–948)
Ross Balzaretti
Hugh of Arles, king Italy between 926 and 947, has come to be regarded as one the more successful kings in tenth century. The evidence his charters supports this conclusion, showing how effectively he managed insert members own Provençal family into existing political fabric northern Italy. Contemporary narrative sources tell same story, but failure. For Rather Verona, Liutprand Cremona even Flodoard Reims, were suspect their sexual mores questionable. Their texts intervened contemporary politics not simply records Hugh's inadequacies real actors that helped make failure happen.
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