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The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”

The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation... AL-MASĀQ 2022, VOL. 34, NO. 2, 172–182 BOOK REVIEWS The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”, Luigi Andrea Berto (Ed. and trans.) London: Routledge, 2022, vii + 176 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367710491. This is the first published rendition into English of the ninth-century narrative of Erchempert [fl. 880s). His “little history” represents an invaluable and contemporaneous window upon the febrile world of the south of Italy during the period that followed from the end of the Lombard kingdom in the north in 774 until c. 889. In recent years, Erchempert’s narrative has increasingly been recognised as an invaluable source and witness to broader and deeper processes that encompassed the south in the long ninth century. In this sense, Luigi Berto’s translation is both timely and useful. Building upon his Italian translation and edition published in 2013, the text and the trans- lation here are furnished with a comprehensive contextual introduction, three appendices that deal sequentially with the codicology of the Ystoriola; a discussion of the alleged simi- larities between the chronicle and a poem addressed to Aio of Benevento, and an evaluation of possible textual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ 2022, VOL. 34, NO. 2, 172–182 BOOK REVIEWS The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”, Luigi Andrea Berto (Ed. and trans.) London: Routledge, 2022, vii + 176 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367710491. This is the first published rendition into English of the ninth-century narrative of Erchempert [fl. 880s). His “little...
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AL-MASĀQ 2022, VOL. 34, NO. 2, 172–182 BOOK REVIEWS The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of “Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium”, Luigi Andrea Berto (Ed. and trans.) London: Routledge, 2022, vii + 176 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780367710491. This is the first published rendition into English of the ninth-century narrative of Erchempert [fl. 880s). His “little history” represents an invaluable and contemporaneous window upon the febrile world of the south of Italy during the period that followed from the end of the Lombard kingdom in the north in 774 until c. 889. In recent years, Erchempert’s narrative has increasingly been recognised as an invaluable source and witness to broader and deeper processes that encompassed the south in the long ninth century. In this sense, Luigi Berto’s translation is both timely and useful. Building upon his Italian translation and edition published in 2013, the text and the trans- lation here are furnished with a comprehensive contextual introduction, three appendices that deal sequentially with the codicology of the Ystoriola; a discussion of the alleged simi- larities between the chronicle and a poem addressed to Aio of Benevento, and an evaluation of possible textual

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