Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy: The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c. 1100 (Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages)

Cover\nTable of Contents\nPrefatory Note\nAcknowledgements\nAbbreviations\nPreface\nIntroduction\n	Documentary Evidence: Dispersal of Properties, Archival Geography\n	Narrative Sources\n	Bibliography\nPart I: Kinship and Political Relations\n	1. The Hucpoldings’ Involvement in the Political Struggles of the Kingdom of Italy (847–945)\n		Hucpold, Count Palatine of Louis II\n		Faction and Endeavour: Hubald I\n		The Aristocratic Career of Boniface dux et marchio between Rudolf II and Hugh of Arles\n		Bibliography\n	2.	Family Patterns and Political Affirmation (945–1012)\n		The Duchy of Spoleto and Tuscany\n		Eastern Emilia and the Exarchate of Ravenna\n		The March of Tuscany\n		Bibliography\n	3.	The Local Basis of Power in a Wide Political Network (1012–1116)\n		Hugh II and His Lineage in Bologna and Ferrara\n		The Ties that Bind: Boniface of Canossa and Kinship Networks across the Apennines\n		The Counts of Romena-Panico\n		Bibliography\nPart II: Properties and Patronage\n	4.	The Exarchate\n		Land Possession and Relations in the Ninth Century\n		The Troubled Years, c.960–c.1000\n		Persistence in the comitatus Faentinus and the 1034 Pact\n		Bibliography\n	5.	The March of Tuscany\n		The Family Group Estates in the Ninth Century\n		Marchisal Fisc and Monastic Foundations\n		Centres of Power, Patronage Networks\n		Bibliography\n	6. Ruling on the Border: Landed Possessions from the Po Valley to the Apennines in Bononia’s Diocese\n		Acquisitions, Exchanges, Organization of Lands in the Tenth Century\n		Landed Wealth and Hegemony\n		Lands, People and Castles (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)\n		Estate Management: Between Territorial Consolidation and Dispersal\n		Bibliography\nPart III: Power, Relationships, Memory\n	7.	Kinship, Self-awareness and Memory\n		Onomastic Choices\n		The lex Ribuaria profession\n		The Role of Monastic Foundations: Family Memory, Politics and Identity\n		Kinship Representations between Perceptions and Self-awareness\n		Evolution and Hierarchy of Kinship Cohesion\n		Bibliography\n	8.	Features and Practices of Power: From Officials to Lords\n		Firsts Steps at Court: Offices and Responsibilities in the Kingdom of Italy\n		The Marchisal Achievement and the Gaining of Ecclesiastical Offices\n		Dinastizzazione of the Title of comes and the Development of Seigneurial Rule in a Border Region\n		Bibliography\n	9.	Discontinuity between Public Powers and Private Seigneurial Rule\n		Bibliography\nGenealogical Tables\n	Bibliography\nBibliography\n	Archival Primary Sources\n	Printed Primary Sources\n	Secondary Sources\nIndex\nMaps and Tables\n	Maps\n		Map 1. Monasteries cited\n		Map 2. Places related to the iudiciaria Mutinensis (c.890–c.950)\n		Map 3. Places mentioned in Romagna and in the Apennines south of Faenza\n		Map 4. Places mentioned in the march of Tuscia\n		Map 5. Places mentioned in the plain north of Bologna and in the mountains to the south\n	Tables\n		Table 1. The Hucpoldings’ charters: a general overview (847–1130)\n		Table 2. The Hucpoldings’ charters in the territory of Bologna: lay people and religious houses (c.900–1130)\n	Genealogical Tables\n		Table G1. The Hucpoldings and the elites of the kingdom of Italy (c.850–c.930)\n		Table G2. Boniface I’s descendants (c.900–c.1050)\n		Table G3. Kinship ties among the marquises of Tuscia (c.950–c.1050): Hucpolding women and the legitimation of the Adalbertings\n		Table G4. Marquis Almericus II’s ancestry (c.850–c.950)\n		Table G5. Kinship ties in Romagna (c.900–c.1050)\n		Table G6. Hucpolding lineages in the Bolognese (c.1030–c.1130)\n		Table G7. The descendants of Count Adimarus (c.990–c.1130)