© Flavia de Rubeis “The seventh century is poorly documented in Lombard Italy, in the absence of both documents and detailed narratives, for Paul the Deacon’s Lombard history, written in the 790s, …

© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. “Le emissioni dei duchi di Benevento, con Solidi e Tremisses, si distribuiscono in termini piuttosto monotoni per tutto l’VIII secolo.”Ermanno Arslan, “Emis…

It’s a truism that any article which has a question for a title will contain the answer ‘no’. I’ve even done this myself before. And this is going to be another example. Or at least a firm ‘maybe b…

© Giancarlo Lacerenza “Iudaei confessores interpretantur. Multos enim ex his sequitur confessio, quos antea perfidia possidebat.”Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae In most cases, when sett…

Despite the biblical model for witchcraft that the Lombard legislation could have been drawn on, then, Rothari and his advisors took a distinctly different direction. The belief in witchcraft is de…

As mentioned in my previous post, this year I returned to the Leeds IMC to present a paper after taking last year off.[1] As with 2024, I thought an overview of my experience might be interesting. …

Arioald, king, to the most holy Bishop…

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”Francis Bacon, Of Studies I thought it might be a good idea to write a report on my personal experience at …