Title: Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages : essays in south Italian church history /
Authors: Loud, G. A.
Publisher: Ashgate/Variorum,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Montecassino (Monastery) History.; Church history; Italy Church history; Benevento (Italy) Church history.
Contents: The Liri Valley in the middle ages -- Montecassino and Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries -- Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and the Gregorian papacy -- The Norman counts of Caiazzo and the abbey of Montecassino -- The genesis and context of the chronicle of Falco of Benevento -- The medieval records of the monastery of St. Sophia, Benevento -- The abbots of St. Sophia, Benevento, in the eleventh century -- A Lombard Abbey in a Norman world: St Sophia, Benevento, 1050-1200 -- Politics, piety and ecclesiastical patronage in twelfth-century Benevento -- A provisional list of the papal rectors of the Benevento, 1101-1227 -- Monarchy and monastery in the Mezzogiorno: at the Abbey of St. Sophia, Benevento and the Staufen -- The case of the missing martyrs: Frederic II's war with the church 1239-1250.