Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Discordant Minds and Hostile Nations -- Christopher Heath and Robert Houghton -- The State of the Field -- This Volume -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Authors -- 2. Morbidity and Murder -- Lombard Kingship's Violent Uncertainties 568-774 -- Christopher Heath -- Law and Authority in Lombard Italy: The Historical Inheritance -- The Space for Lombard Kingship -- Alboin, Perctarit and Liutprand: Violence and Murder in the Court -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 3. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Lombard Italy (c600-700)* -- Guido M. Berndt -- Lombards Entering Italy -- Insurgencies During the 'Warlord-decade' -- Droctulf of Brescello: From Lombard Dux to Byzantine Hypostrategos -- The Rise of the Lombard Kingdom: Flavius rex Authari -- Insurgencies During the Reign of Agilulf -- Insurgencies During the Time of Adaloald and Arioald -- Insurgencies During the Reign of Rothari -- Grimoald in a Lombard 'Game of Thrones' -- Paul the Deacon's Prototype/Prefiguration of an Insurgent: Alahis, filius iniquitatis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 4. Troubled Times -- Narrating Conquest and Defiance between Charlemagne and Bernard (774-818) -- Francesco Borri -- Introduction -- Ira Dei super omnes Langobardos -- Roticauso inimico nostro -- Splenduit Italia -- Per tyrannidem imperio usurpare -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 5. 'Nec patiaris populum Domini ab illis divinitus fulminandis Agarenis discerpi' -- Handling 'Saracen' Violence in Ninth-Century Southern Italy -- Kordula Wolf -- Talking and Writing About Violent 'Saracens' -- Christian 'Counterviolence'.

Impacts and Consequences -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 6. Formosus and the 'Synod of the Corpse' -- Tenth Century Rome in History and Memory* -- David Barritt -- Bad Ritual -- Episcopal transfer -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 7. Sex, Denigration and Violence -- A Representation of Political Competition between Two Aristocratic Families in Ninth Century Italy -- Edoardo Manarini -- The Epitome chronicorum Casinensium: A First Survey -- Sex, Denigration and Violence at the Court of Louis II of Italy (844-875) -- The Episode -- A Biblical Model and Its Meaning -- Where the Struggle Took Place -- The Ordeal by Fire: Legislation and Narrative of the Proof of Truthfulness -- Competition for Power and Political Struggle Among the Proceres Regni: Supponids vs Hucpoldings -- A Queen and a Count Palatine of the Italian Kingdom -- The iudiciaria Mutinensis and Boniface's Career -- The Supponinds as Antagonists in Emilia -- Louis II's Fiscal Policy Towards Queen Angelberga -- 'Any Press Is Good Press' -- St Benedict in Adili: Territorial Coordinates for a Hypothesis of Localisation -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 8. 'Italy and her [German] Invaders' -- Otto III's and Frederick Barbarossa's Early Tours of Italy - Pomp, Generosity and Ferocity -- Penelope Nash -- Introduction -- Imperial Consciousness -- Adventus -- The Legacy of Pippin -- Rights of the King in Italy -- Descent into Italy, Perceptions and Consequences: Otto III -- Contemporary Views of Otto III's First Two Tours of Italy -- Frederick Barbarossa -- Barbarossa in Italy, According To Otto of Freising -- What Really Happened on Barbarossa's First Tour of Italy -- What Really Happened on Barbarossa's Second Tour of Italy.

Imperial Consciousness Remade -- Adventus Rearranged and the Legacy of Pippin Questioned -- The Rights of the King in Italy Overturned -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 9. 'I Predict a Riot' -- What Were the Parmense Rebelling Against in 1037? -- Robert Houghton -- Sources -- Parma c.1037 -- Identity of the Rioters -- Causes of the Riot -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- About the Author -- 10. The Strange Case of Deusdedit and Pandulf -- Two Accounts of Honorius II's Election -- Enrico Veneziani -- The Letter of Cardinal Deusdedit: An Echo of the Official Roman Version of the Election? -- Pandulf's Life of Honorius: An Artificial Account of the Election -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- About the Author -- Afterword -- Ross Balzaretti -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- About the Author -- Index.