Empire and Tuscany during the reign of Frederick I Barbarossa

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Maria Elena Cortese
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8908-6896

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The essay analyzes Frederick I Barbarossa’s action in Tuscany framing it in the complex political and institutional context that originated after the end of the March of Tuscia. Some traditional interpretations are reconsidered on the attitude adopted by the emperor towards the main political actors on the regional scene: rural aristocracies and urban communes. Abandoning the prevalent in historiography urban-centric optics, it is possible to observe how the emperor aimed to maintain a mosaic of different political entities linked to him by a direct subjection, and how he recognised them, in order to make them coexist under the imperial hegemony.

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Cortese, Maria. 2017. “Empire and Tuscany During the Reign of Frederick I Barbarossa”. Reti Medievali Journal 18 (2), 49-88. https://doi.org/10.6092/1593-2214/5341.
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