Italy in the Central Middle Ages 1000-1300.pdf

The Short Oxford History of Italy

General Editor: John A. Davis

Italy in the Central

Middle Ages

1000–1300

Edited by David Abula

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The Short Oxford History of Italy

General Editor: John A. Davis

Italy in the Early Middle Ages

edited by Cristina La Rocca

Early Modern Italy

edited by John Marino

Italy in the Nineteenth Century

edited by John A. Davis

Liberal and Fascist Italy

edited by Adrian Lyttelton

Italy since 1945

edited by Patrick McCarthy

IN PREPARATION

Italy in the Age of the Renaissance 1300–1550

edited by John Najemy

The Short Oxford History of Italy

Italy in the Central Middle Ages

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General Editor’s Preface

ects changes within Europe itself,

the declining importance of the individual European states in an

increasingly global world, the moves towards closer political and

economic integration amongst the European states, and Europe’s

rapidly changing relations with the non-European world. It also

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ects broader intellectual changes rooted in the experience of

the twentieth century that have brought new

elds of historical

inquiry into prominence and have radically changed the ways in

which historians approach the past.

The new Short Oxford History of Europe series, of which this Short

Oxford History of Italy is part, o

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ers an important and timely

opportunity to explore how the histories of the contemporary Euro-

pean national communities are being rewritten. Covering a chrono-

logical span from late antiquity to the present, the Short Oxford

History of Italy is organized in seven volumes, to which over seventy

specialists in di

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elds and periods of Italian history have con-

tributed. Each volume provides clear and concise accounts of how

each period of Italy’s history is currently being rede

erent

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ned, and their

collective purpose is to show how an older perspective that reduced

Italy’s past to the quest of a nation for statehood and independence

has now been displaced by di

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erent and new perspectives.

The fact that Italy’s history has long been dominated by the mod-

ern nation-state and its origins simply re

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ects one particular variant

on a pattern evident throughout Europe. When from the eighteenth

century onwards Italian writers turned to the past to retrace the

origins of their nation and its quest for independent nationhood,

they were doing the same as their counterparts elsewhere in Europe.

But their search for the nation imposed a periodization on Italy’s past

that has survived to the present, even if the original intent has been

lost or rede

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ned. Focusing their attention on those periods –– the

Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Risorgimento –– that seemed to

anticipate the modern, they carefully averted their gaze from those

that did not, the Dark Ages, and the centuries of foreign occupation

and conquest after the sack of Rome in

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Over the last three decades historians have begun to interpret Europe’s

past in new ways. In part this re

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