Habilitationsschrift--Philosophische Fakultät--Berlin, 1971. / Bibliogr. pp. XIII-XVI. Index.

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Lettres et sci. humaines--Paris 4, 1988. / Contient un choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 1095-1112. Index.

Inaug. diss.--Stockholms högskola. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted. "The ms. on which the edition ... has been based in codex Vaticanus Latinus 500l ... from about the year 1300."

Inaug. diss.--Stockholms högskola. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted. "The ms. on which the edition ... has been based in codex Vaticanus Latinus 500l ... from about the year 1300."

This dissertation examines how clerics in the Lombard and Carolingian Kingdom of Italy prosecuted disputes with each other. It argues for and explores two core features of the clerical legal culture of the kingdom. The first regards the judicial institutions that clerics exploited. While the late eleventh and twelfth centuries would see the elaboration of a coherent system of ecclesiastical justice centered on the papal court, distinct from secular judicial institutions, the situation in the early Middle Ages was radically different. Early medieval Italian clerics made recourse to a wide variety of judicial forums, including both "secular" ones such as the public courts and properly "ecclesiastical" ones such as church synods. The dissertation explores these judicial pathways--some of them well-trodden and enduring ones, others more ad hoc--and the ways clerics navigated between them. Second, this study demonstrates that many early medieval Italian clerics displayed considerable skill and sophistication in crafting and delivering legal arguments against each other. Those arguments frequently hinged on substantive appeal to canon law. This finding presents a challenge to a prevailing view in legal-historical scholarship which downplays or ignores practical legal expertise in the early Middle Ages and often dismisses the period itself as an "age without jurists." This dissertation instead argues for an early medieval clerical legal culture that scholars must take seriously as a prehistory to the well-known legal and judicial developments of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This is the first study to explore in depth the diversity of judicial pathways exploited by clerics in early medieval Italy and the legal arguments they constructed. Proceeding on the basis of case studies, it traces the threads of ecclesiastical legal culture through several genres of sources: in addition to diplomatic sources such as judicial notices, papal bulls, imperial diplomas, and private charters, it also examines the evidence to be found in works of poetry, hagiography, and historiography, and in legal compilations. Among the ecclesiastical disputes that receive extended discussion are those between the bishops of Arezzo and Siena, between the patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado, between the abbots of Nonantola and neighboring bishops, and those within the diocese of Lucca.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--München--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2005. / Bibliogr. p. [198]-222.

Inaug.-Diss.--Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen. / Cover title. Vita.

Ridefinizione del tema delle origini dei Goti secondo il recente dibattito e indagine storico-prosopografica basata su fonti narrative, documentarie, archeologiche ed epigrafiche sulla fisionomia identitaria e sociale degli Ostrogoti insediati in Italia e sopravvissuti nel periodo successivo alla Guerra Greco-Gotica (dalla seconda metà del VI sec. d.C..), con particolare attenzione alle aree di dominio bizantino. Il lascito della loro memoria etnica, storica e istituzionale nel Regnum longobardo e in alcune fonti narrative italiane medievali. / Redefinition of the Goths-origins them in the recent debate, and historical -prosopographical research based on narrative, documentary, archaeological and epigraphic sources about the identity and social make-up of living and surviving Ostrogoths in Italy after the Greek-Gothic War (from 2nd half of VIth century), particularly for the areas under Byzantine rule. The heritage of their ethnic, historical, and institutional remembrance in the Lombard kingdom and in some Italian middle-age narrative sources.

Lo studio si propone di analizzare sotto diversi punti di vista la memoria dei rapporti fra il popolo longobardo e la Chiesa. Esso si concentra su quattro aree principali: 1 il ruolo dei Longobardi nella storia della Salvezza; 2 gli impieghi polemici della storia longobarda in ambito politico-ecclesiologico; 3 il ricordo delle fondazioni monastiche longobarde; 4 lo speciale significato attribuito alla regina Teodolinda per la conversione dei Longobardi alla fede cattolica. / This study aims at analysing the multifaceted perceptions of Lombard history, more specifically of its relationships with the Christian faith and Church. It concentrates on four main areas: 1 the place of the Lombards in the history of Salvation; 2 the polemical uses of Lombard history in political-ecclesiological discourses; 3 the memory of Lombard monastic foundations; 4 the special importance attributed to queen Theodolinda for the conversion of the Lombards to the Catholic faith.

(in English): This thesis focuses on the first book of Historia Langobardorum (History of the Lombards), a historiographical work written by Paulus Diaconus (Paul the Deacon), a Benedictine monk and Lombard historian. The thesis consists of three parts - an introductory essay, a translation of the book and a commentary. An edition of the Latin text is attached as an appendix. In the introductory essay, having given the necessary facts, I summarise previous research on Historia Langobarorum and discuss Paul's use of sources with focus on some of the questions connected to this topic (especially the question of Paul's knowledge of the Lombard oral tradition). In the following part of the essay, the book is analysed within the conventions of so-called origo gentis-genre. The emphasis is laid especially on the legendary elements that are dominant in the initial passages of the narrative. The translation is accompanied with a commentary in which the information provided by the text are set in a broader cultural and historical context.