Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PART I POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
- 1 Introduction: sources and interpretation
- 2 The British Isles
- 3 Frankish Gaul to 814
- 4 The Frankish kingdoms, 814–898: the West
- 5 The Frankish Kingdoms, 817–911: the East and Middle Kingdoms
- 6 Fines Imperii: the Marches
- 7 The Vikings in Francia and Anglo-Saxon England to 911
- 8 Scandinavia, c. 700–1066
- 9 Slavs and Bulgars
- 10 The Muslims in Europe
- 11 Spain: the northern kingdoms and the Basques, 711–910
- 12 Lombard and Carolingian Italy
- 13 Byzantine Italy, c. 680–c. 876
- 14 Byzantium and the west, 700–900
- PART II GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS
- PART III CHURCH AND SOCIETY
- PART IV CULTURE AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Conclusion
- Appendix genealogical tables
- List of primary sources
- Bibliography of secondary works arranged by chapter
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
- Frontispiece">
- Plate section
- Map 4 Charlemagne’s Europe and Byzantium, 814
- Map 19 The ecclesiastical provinces of western Europe 700-900
- Map 20 Carolingian schools, scriptoria and literary centres
- Genealogical table X: Wessex
- References
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from PART I - POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- PART I POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
- 1 Introduction: sources and interpretation
- 2 The British Isles
- 3 Frankish Gaul to 814
- 4 The Frankish kingdoms, 814–898: the West
- 5 The Frankish Kingdoms, 817–911: the East and Middle Kingdoms
- 6 Fines Imperii: the Marches
- 7 The Vikings in Francia and Anglo-Saxon England to 911
- 8 Scandinavia, c. 700–1066
- 9 Slavs and Bulgars
- 10 The Muslims in Europe
- 11 Spain: the northern kingdoms and the Basques, 711–910
- 12 Lombard and Carolingian Italy
- 13 Byzantine Italy, c. 680–c. 876
- 14 Byzantium and the west, 700–900
- PART II GOVERNMENT AND INSTITUTIONS
- PART III CHURCH AND SOCIETY
- PART IV CULTURE AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS
- Conclusion
- Appendix genealogical tables
- List of primary sources
- Bibliography of secondary works arranged by chapter
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
- Frontispiece">
- Plate section
- Map 4 Charlemagne’s Europe and Byzantium, 814
- Map 19 The ecclesiastical provinces of western Europe 700-900
- Map 20 Carolingian schools, scriptoria and literary centres
- Genealogical table X: Wessex
- References
Summary
the lombard state
the laws which were promulgated by the Lombard king Liutprand (712–744) depict the model of an ideal state, based on elevated political ideas, peculiar to that prince and his age.
One basic principle was the solidarity of the king with the freemen who constituted the political body of the kingdom. This was in part a heritage of the ancient Germanic idea of the people participating in national sovereignty. This concept had not weakened after the Lombards established themselves in Italy. Under Liutprand it could be found in the recognition, implicit in his legislation, that it was the body of the free Lombards that ensured the two basic expressions of national sovereignty: military activity, and the ability to provide themselves with legal regulations. Thus the laws of Liutprand were promulgated in assemblies consisting of judges and royal fideles from all the partes of the kingdom, representing the entire Lombard people, who could no longer physically gather together. As for military activity, it should be noted that in Liutprand’s laws the free Lombard is usually identified with the exercitalis – the man who performs military service for the public authority. The traditional nature of this concept was stressed through the use of the ancient Lombard term arimannus as a synonym for exercitalis.
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- The New Cambridge Medieval History , pp. 290 - 319Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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