Legislation and politics in late Carolingian Italy: the Ravenna constitutions
Simon MacLean
This article considers some overlooked evidence for royal legislation in the dying days of Carolingian empire, a series charters known as Ravenna constitutions. These documents, which deal with status Italian freemen, are often analysed sources social history but rarely texts their own right. Reconstructing context were issued enables us to cast light on political events and self‐representation early 880s Italy; by drawing attention peculiarities form, we can use them reflect more broadly nature capitulary meaning its disappearance at end ninth century.
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