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Citizenship and community in southern Italy c. 1100–c. 12201

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Paul Oldfield
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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 74 , November 2006 , pp. 323 - 338
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I would like to thank Graham Loud for his general encouragement and advice on an earlier draft, and Ian Moxon for assisting with translations and numerous discussions on the topic of this paper.

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19 To do justice to the wealth of material on Salerno, most of which remains unpublished, would require a thesis in itself. The present study has utilized all the published material available on the city, as well as a good quantity of unedited documents from the Cava archive, kindly provided by Graham Loud. These are easily extensive enough to draw detailed conclusions on the city while acknowledging that they can not be inclusive of the full body of documentation. Galante, M., Nuove pergamene del monastero femminile di S. Giorgio di Salerno I [993–1256] (Salerno, 1984), nos. 31, 40Google Scholar. In an inscription made in 1180 in the cathedral of Salerno, the famous royal vice-chancellor Matthew was described as magnus civis Salerni — Ughelli, F. (ed.), Italia Sacra sive de Episcopis Italiae (second edition by Colletti, N., 10 vols) (Venice, 1717–1721), VIII, 405Google Scholar; Salernitan cives are described in a variety of narrative sources, including the eleventh-century poetical works of Archbishop Alfanus I of Salerno and William of Apulia, as well as that of Peter of Eboli, which deals with the late twelfth century. There are also references in the chronicle attributed to Archbishop Romuald II of Salerno and the twelfth-century work of the so-called Hugo Falcandus. The city's 1127 pacta with Roger II, which only survives in a fifteenth-century copy, repeatedly refers to cives. However the pacta are transcribed more as a report by fifteenth-century Salernitani than as a verbatim document. Thus, although its content appears to reflect twelfth-century conditions, the same cannot be said as certainly for the language employed — De Renzi, S., Storia documentata della Scuola Medica di Salerno (Naples, 1857Google Scholar; reprinted Milan, 1967), lxxii–lxxvi doc. 177.

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30 In 1177 Pope Alexander III ratified an exchange made between the church of San Nicola of Bari and four men, who were addressed as Barenses cives: de Rossi, G.B. Nitto and di Vito, F. Nitti (eds), Le pergamene del duomo di Bari (952–1264) (Codice diplomatico barese I) (Bari, 1867Google Scholar; reprinted 1964) [hereafter CDBI], no. 53. A fragmentary private document of 1180 also mentions a ‘citizen’, CDBV no. 144. An equally fragmentary document of 1169, recorded at Trani, refers to a concivis of a person from Bari, CDBV no. 127.

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38 Petroni, Della storia di Bari (above, n. 33), rubric III, 4.

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50 Article 3, The Assizes of King Roger. Text of Cod. Vat. Lat. 8782, translation courtesy of G.A. Loud.

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54 CDNA 341–2 no. 19 (54), 132–4 no. 76, 180–2 no. 100, 187–92 nos. 103–4, 339–40 no. 18 (54); Salvati, C. (ed.), Codice diplomatico svevo di Aversa [parte prima] (Naples, 1980)Google Scholar [hereafter CDSA], 28–30 no. 14, 219–21 no. 109.

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67 These discords had turned violent at least by the 1190s, for example Troia 114–15, 139; see also above, n. 15.

68 Fasoli, ‘Città e ceti urbani’ (above, n. 49), 161–3; Chalandon, F., Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicilie (Paris, 1907), II, 601–2Google Scholar. The latter set reflects the medieval literary perception that society had a tripartite ordering, which had both ancient and ecclesiological influences, of those who prayed, those who fought and those who worked: Murray, A., Reason and Society in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1978), 96Google Scholar.

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84 The influence of Christianity on the idea of civis and civitas, and especially Saint Augustine and his work The City of God, could also offer an interesting route to explore.

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