The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert... - 9780367710514

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The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by ErchempertA Critical Edition and Translation of Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium\nAuthor(s): Luigi Andrea Berto\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367710514, 978-0367710514\nSynopsis\nThis volume presents the analysis, English translation, and critical edition of the Latin text of The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento, thus offering an important contribution for a better understanding of early medieval southern Italian (and Mediterranean) history.\n\nIn the 840s, having passed the danger of subjugation by Charlemagne, southern Italys Lombards experienced a bloody civil war that put an end to their unity and turned southern Italy into the playground of several competing powers: Lombard lords, the Neapolitans, the Frankish and the Byzantine Empires, the Muslims, and, sometimes, even the papacy. At the end of the ninth century, the Cassinese mon.