Southern Italy as Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages: Religious‐Cultural Heterogeneity and Competing Powers in Local, Transregional and Universal Dimensions. Edited by KordulaWolf and KlausHerbers. Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 80. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag. 2018. 433 pp.+ 27 b/w and colour figures. €65. ISBN 978 3 412 50926 2.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Whitten
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Contact Area ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Heterogeneity

Early Medieval Wales and Calabria

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Barriers To Access

In 2011 Chris Wickham highlighted the comparative potential in the post-Roman histories of Wales and southern Italy, commenting that ‘the changing societies in each were the result of indigenous developments alone.’ This chapter takes up the implicit challenge in that statement and discusses South Wales and Calabria utilizing three frames: topographical, economic, and literary. Topographically, the mountainous interiors demand attention not only as barriers to access, but also as places of refuge and retreat. Both areas were open to the sea, and potentially to hostile waterborne raiders. Economically, the two regions were unpromising for agriculture, but ideal for pastoralism, and also offered specific resources that were in demand by local elites. From a literary viewpoint, both regions generated stories that emphasized and used the landscape and followed their protagonists on journeys through and beyond the region. Whilst their development in the early Middle Ages may well have been identifiably indigenous, it did not occur in isolation from wider social and economic change.

The Significance of the Place-Name Element *funta in the Early Middle Ages

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Middle Ages
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