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- Title
Legislation and politics in late Carolingian Italy: the Ravenna constitutions Simon MacLean Legislation and politics: the Ravenna constitutions.
- Authors
MacLean, Simon
- Abstract
This article considers some overlooked evidence for royal legislation in the dying days of the Carolingian empire, a series of charters known as the Ravenna constitutions. These documents, which deal with the status of Italian freemen, are often analysed as sources for social history but rarely as texts in their own right. Reconstructing the context in which the charters were issued enables us to cast light on political events and royal self-representation in early 880s Italy; and by drawing attention to the peculiarities of their form, we can use them to reflect more broadly on the nature of Carolingian capitulary legislation and the meaning of its disappearance at the end of the ninth century.
- Subjects
RAVENNA (Italy); ITALY; LEGISLATION; CAROLINGIANS; FREEMEN; CONSTITUTIONS
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2010, Vol 18, Issue 4, p394
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0254.2010.00304.x