Research Catalog

Title

Italy and its invaders / Girolamo Arnaldi ; translated by Antony Shugaar.

Author

Arnaldi, Girolamo.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Shugaar, Antony.

Description

ix, 229 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"From the earliest times, successive waves of foreign invaders have left their mark on Italy. Beginning with Germanic invasions that undermined the Roman Empire and culminating with the establishment of the modern nation, Girolamo Arnaldi explores the dynamic exchange between outsider and "native," while liberally citing interpretations of the foreigners drawn from a range of sources." "Arnaldi traces the rise of Christianity, which in the transition from Roman to barbarian rule would provide a social bond that endured through centuries of foreign domination."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Italia e i suoi invasori. English

Alternative Title

Italia e i suoi invasori.

Subject

• Italy > History
• Italy > History, Military
• Italy > Foreign relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-218) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Contents

1. From the sack of Rome to Odoacer, "king of the nations" -- 2. Ostrogoths, Romans of Italy and Romans of the East -- 3. The longobards in war and peace and the origins of the temporal dominion of the popes and of Venice -- 4. In the empire of Charlemagne and within the shelter of the city walls -- 5. Germans at Legnano, Normans in Southern Italy and Sicily -- 6. The meteor Frederick II and the bitter "chickpeas" of the French in Sicily -- 7. The chalk of Charles VIII and the lance of Fieramosca -- 8. Milan and Naples in the Castilian empire -- 9. The Austrians and the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom -- 10. A pseudoconquest and a true liberation.

ISBN

0674018702

LCCN

2005050770

OCLC

• OCM60776873
• SCSB-14332547

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries