Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850-1139 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850-1139 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

Patricia Skinner

Language: English

Pages: 340

ISBN: 0521522056

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This book looks at family-based political power in three south Italian cities--Gaeta, Amalfi and Naples--and examines the ways in which medieval families can be reconstructed and their relationships with each other studied. It analyzes the changes that took place in these cities, particularly in the eleventh century, and their reactions to the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the latter part of the century. This is the first comparative study of the three cities and it is of special relevance to European studies of the early medieval family and state structures.

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Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850-1139 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps the most potent threat to his power. In a family which produced many sons in each generation, it would have been all too easy for one brother to overthrow another. Land grants bought loyalty, and overall seemed to have worked well. Who then received land from outside the family circle? Two of Marinus and John's grants were to churches,42 another two were to Leo son of Constantine,43 (otherwise unknown, but perhaps related to the Marinus son of Constantine mentioned above) and Docibilis.

Thereby gained not only spiritual, but also economic, aid. 157 161 164 158 159 160 CDC 52. CDC 72. CDC 94CDC 74162 163 CDC 165. CDC 36. CDC 59. It is unclear when the adoption took place, but it may have been the occasion for John of Gaeta to produce his version of the saint's life in the 1080s: O. Engels, 'Papst Gelasius II (Johannes von Gaeta) als Hagiograph', QFIAB, $ (1955), 1-45, gives bibliography on this subject. This would fit well with the appearance of bronze coinage stamped with SE.

Tenth century. In one move a compliant bishop was, in theory, obtained and the pretensions to the dukedom of a younger son contained. (Although men who held both posts were not unknown in southern Italy - the bishop/duke of Naples in the 880s, Athanasius, is a case in point. 170 ) As part of two landowning networks, those of the church and the ruling dynasty, Bernard was uniquely powerful — he held onto his position as bishop until his death in 1047, twelve years after his 165 168 166 167 CDC.

Reflects Gaetan evidence, where most cases coming before Docibilans were contested by the nobility, it seems. What is striking about the two Neapolitan examples is that although the disputes came before the dukes of the day, John in 932 and Sergius in 992, in neither case was a decision by the duke recorded. Instead, the mere bringing of the cases seems to have acted as a catalyst to a settlement; the earlier case was decided by an oath, the latter apparently by written evidence. It may well be.

Could not, however, create a new nobility to replace or exist alongside that which they inherited from the Anatolii. What distinguished these two groups from each other? 82 83 CDC 125; as we have seen, a possible member of the Caracci family (see above, note 5). 84 See above, chapter 2. CDC 16. 125 From the beginnings to the eleventh century (b) NOBILITY AND ARISTOCRACY! TYRRHENIAN PATTERNS IN THE TENTH CENTURY Leopold Genicot, making some general comments on the nature of the uppermost.

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