Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, C.700 900

by Marios Costambeys

Book Overview

Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its early establishment,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521178304
• ISBN13: 9780521178303
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"