Inheritance and Influence: the Kingdom of the Lombards in Early Medieval Italy

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INHERITANCE AND INFLUENCE: THE KINGDOM OF THE LOMBARDS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ITALY 26 MARCH 2021 READING LIST Judith Herrin Byzantium – the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, 2007, Penguin Peter Heather. The Restoration of Rome – Barbarian popes and Imperial Pretenders, 2013, PAN Girolamo Arnaldi Italy and its Invaders, 2002, Harvard University Press. Neil Christie The Lombards – Peoples of Europe Series, 1999, Whiley-Blackwell SLIDE LIST Basilica di San Vitale, Sixth century AD, Ravenna, Italy Bust of Cassius Dio, Second century AD, Museo Nazionale delle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop, Alboin and Rosalind, 1615, Kunsthistorischen Museum, Vienna Longobard Temple, Eighth century AD, Cividale dei Friuli, Italy Umayyad Panel, Eighth century AD, David Museum, Copenhagen Panel with Peacock, Sixth century AD, Archeological Museum, Cividale dei Friuli San Michele Maggiore, Pavia, Italy King Agilulf Helmet Plate, Sixth century AD, Bargello Museum, Florence Fibulae, Sixth century AD, Cividale dei Friuli Silver Plate, Sixth century AD, Cividale dei Friuli Gold Burial Cross, Seventh century AD, Cividale dei Friuli. Garment Brooch, Sixth century AD, Turin Archeological Museum Manuscript from Edit of Rothari, Eighth century copy, Spoleto Public Library Monza Cathedral, Lombardy Chapel of Theodelinda, Fifteenth century, Monza Cathedral, Lombardy Gold book Cover, Seventh century AD, Monza Cathedral Treasury Carlo Saraceni, Inspiration of Saint Gregory, 1959 circa, Burghley House, Lincolnshire, UK Iron Crown of Theodelinda, Monza Cathedral Treasury, Monza Tempietto Longobardo, Ninth century AD, Pissignano sul Clitunno, Spoleto, Umbria. Church of San Salvatore, Spoleto Church of Santa Sofia, Benevento, Italy Cross of Desiderius, Eighth – Twelfth century AD, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Lombardy Bust of Charlemagne, Fourteenth century, Aachen Cathedral Treasury, Aachen, Germany Paul the Deacon manuscript, Ninth century AD, Cividale dei Friuli Francesco Hayez, Portrait of Alessandro Manzoni 1841, Pinacoteca Brera, Milan Golden Chicks Sculpture, Seventh century AD, Monza Cathedral Treasury, Monza .

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