Italy and Early Medieval Europe

Ross Balzaretti is an Associate Professor and Head of History at the University of Nottingham. He completed his PhD at University College London and held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, for which he is now an ambassador. In 2015 he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.Julia Barrow is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. She previously worked at the universities of Birmingham - where she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - and Nottingham. Her research interests lie chiefly in Church history in England and Western Europe to 1300.Patricia Skinner holds a Personal Chair in History at Swansea University. She completed her PhD under Chris Wickham's supervision at Birmingham, and remained there holding a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has published several books and numerous articles on Italian, gender and medical history.

• Ross Balzaretti, Julia Barrow and Patricia Skinner: Italy and the Early Middle Ages: a Journey through Time and SpaceJanet Nelson: Chris - An AppreciationCristina La Rocca: Lodare 'il Wickham'Part One - Lords and Peasants: Frames for the Middle Ages1: Walter Pohl: Social Cohesion, Breaks and Transformations in Italy, 535-6002: Ian Wood: The Roman Origins of the Northumbrian Kingdom3: Patrick Geary: Langobardi in the Sixth Century without Paulus Diaconus4: Wendy Davies: Boni homini in Northern Iberia: a Particularity that Raises some General Questions5: Pauline Stafford: Gender and the Gift: the Giving and Receiving of Women in Early Medieval England6: Susan Reynolds: Still Fussing about Feudalism7: Laurent Feller: Travail, Salaire et Pauvreté au Moyen Âge8: Peter Coss: Bastard Feudalism and the Framing of Thirteenth-Century England9: Marco Valenti: Changing Rural Settlements in the Early Middle Ages in Central and northern Italy: Towards the Centralization of Rural Property10: Maria Elena Cortese: Between the City and the Countryside: the Aristocracy in the March of Tuscia (late tenth - early twelfth centuries)11: Alessandra Molinari: Riflessioni sulle Economie dei Secoli X e XI: Palermo e Roma a Confronto12: Sandro Carocci: Reframing Norman Italy13: Graham A. Loud: Labour Services and Peasant Obligations in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Southern ItalyPart Two - Texts and Memories14: Cristina La Rocca: An Arena of Abuses and Competing Powers: Rome in Cassiodorus'15: Lisa Fentress: Topographic Memory16: Rosamond McKitterick: The Damnatio Memoriae of Pope Constantine II (767-768)17: Antonio Sennis: Fame and its Vagaries in the Middle Ages18: Marios Costambeys: Archives and Social Change in Italy, c.900-1100: the Evidence of Dispute Notices19: Edward Coleman: Disputed Possession, Legal Process and Memory in Thirteenth-Century Lombardy: the case of Guastalla and Luzzara (1193-1227)20: Paul Oldfield: 'To Destroy a City so Great and Remarkable': Lamentation, Panegyric and the Idea of the Medieval CityPart Three - Economic Resources21: Paul Fouracre: 'Framing' and Lighting: Another Angle on Transition22: Joanna Story: Lands and Lights in Early Medieval Rome23: Caroline Goodson: Garden Cities in Medieval Italy24: Ross Balzaretti: Chestnuts in Charters: Evidence for Specialised Production in Tenth-Century Genoa and Milan25: Rosemary Morris: The 'Life Aquatic' on Athos in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries26: Giovanna Bianchi: Public Powers, Private Powers and the Exploitation of Metals for Coinage: the Case of Medieval Tuscany27: Eduardo Manzano Moreno: Coinage and the Tributary Mode of Production28: Chris Callow: Comparing Medieval Iceland with Other Regions: Problems and Possibilities29: Patricia Skinner: Early Medieval Wales and Calabria: a Mountain of Problems?Part Four - The Spiritual Economy30: Paolo Delogu: Devozione longobarda31: Julia Smith: Cursing and Curing, or The Practice of Christianity in Eighth-Century Rome32: John Haldon: Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Views on Islam and on Jih?d, c.900 CE: a Papal Connection?33: Mayke de Jong: The Two Republics: Ecclesia and the Public Domain in the Carolingian World34: Julia Barrow: Developing Definitions of Reform in the Church in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries35: Régine Le Jan: Memory, Gift and Politics: Matilda of Tuscany and her Donations to St Peter36: Frances Andrews: Como and Padua

This work will stand the test of time and remain a significant and valuable work which acts as a fitting homage to the profoundly important work of Chris Wickham.