TY - BOOK ID - 130080944 TI - Conflict and violence in Medieval Italy, 568-1154 AU - Heath, Christopher AU - Houghton, Robert AU - International Medieval Congress PY - 2022 SN - 9789048536207 9789462985179 9048536200 9462985170 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdan University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Italy KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:130080944 AB - This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy. Together, the contributors present a new critique of power that sustained both kingship and locally based elite networks throughout the Italian peninsula. A broad temporal range, covering the sixth to the twelfth century, allows this book to cross a number of 'traditional' fault-lines in Italian historiography - 774, 888, 962 and 1025. The essays provide a wide-ranging analysis of the role of conflict in the period, the operation of power and the development of communal consciousness and collective action by protagonists and groups. It is thus essential reading for scholars, students and general readers who wish to understand the situation on the ground in the medieval Italian environment. ER -