Cities in Southern Italy between the 11th and 15th centuries

Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 10

Pages: 254

Language: Italian

Published: 2024

ISBN: 978-88-31309-31-8

Abstract: The historiography of recent decades has refocused attention on the study of the urban phenomenon in the Mezzogiorno, attempting to free itself from the exhausted comparison with the communal civilisation of central-northern Italy and instead enhancing the dialectic with the monarchy. This volume intends to continue exploring a number of examples of cities and quasi-cities within the Kingdom. The cases examined range from a newly founded centre such as Francavilla Fontana, to a robust quasi-city such as Barletta, to centres consolidating their profile such as Teramo and Cosenza, and to cities with strong political traditions such as Benevento, Salerno, Bari and even Naples.

The authors were allowed a relative freedom to choose the key of interpretation, but always with the common perspective of returning the discourse to the individual cities as autonomous objects of investigation and placed in an inescapable dialectic with the monarchy and with the other forces from time to time predominant in the internal dynamics of the kingdom, in which exogenous factors with respect to the strictly royal area were not absent either. The desired result is to offer an innovative spectrum of the richness and articulation of the urban framework of Reggio Emilia, also starting from different methodological approaches.

Summary

Marcello Romano, Angela Santamato, Premessa
Francesco Panarelli, Introduzione
Francesco Violante, San Nicola a Bari. Identità urbana e geopolitica mediterranea tra Bizantini e Normanni (1087-1111)
Alessandro Di Muro, Salerno tra i secoli XI e XII
Amalia Galdi, Salerno tra i secoli XIII e XIV
Mariarosaria Salerno, Cosenza tra XI e XIV secolo: sistema di relazioni e ruolo della città
Pierluigi Terenzi, Teramo nel basso medioevo: la trasformazione di un sistema politico (secoli XII-XIV)
Fulvio Delle Donne, Napoli in età sveva: la graduale costruzione di una capitale
Victor Rivera Magos, «Ad delectabile ocium nostre declinacionis electam». Barletta nella prima età angioina (1276-1302)
Gemma T. Colesanti - Eleni Sakellariou, Benevento, una città tra regno e papato: il ruolo delle confraternite nelle dinamiche istituzionali cittadine
Luciana Petracca, Aspetti della facies urbana e architettonica in Terra d’Otranto tra XIV e XV secolo: il borgo nuovo di Francavilla