Sam Ottewill-Soulsby is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo
Graeme Ward is a researcher at the University of Tübingen

The Carolingian South: Introduction – Sam Ottewill-Soulsby and Graeme Ward

Part I: Agents and institutions
1. What’s Carolingian about the kingdoms of the Carolingian Midi? Structures of power in Aquitaine and Provence – Fraser McNair
2. The material impact of the Carolingian empire in the Spanish March: A relational approach – Carlos Tejerizo García
3. Entangled competitions on the fringes of the Carolingian South-East: Rethinking the Council of Mantua (827) – Francesco Veronese
4. Northeastern Italy in the early Carolingian period: Archaeological perspectives on the integration of a border area – Yuri A. Marano
5. Lopsided legacy: Autonomy, relics, and Carolingian Dalmatia – Shane Cavlovic

Part II: Watching the Carolingian South
6. Roman perceptions of the Carolingian world in the ninth century – Rosamond McKitterick
7. Asserting political authority in Lombard Southern Italy: Adelchis of Benevento and Emperor Louis II – Giulia Zornetta
8. 'All the kings who reign in Francia are called Charles': The Carolingians in the eyes of al-Andalus – Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

Part III: Carolingian Gothic
9. Visigothic dusk: The cities of Septimania after the seventh century – Javier Martínez Jiménez
10. Rethinking the Visigothic refugees – Graeme Ward
11. Learning from the vanquished? Visigothic legal texts in the empire of the Franks – Karl Ubl
12. Rejecting renovatio? Cultural and intellectual interactions between the Iberian Christian kingdoms and the Carolingians – Gaelle Bosseman

Part IV: Writing the Carolingian South
13. The taming of the south: Aquitaine, history and character in the poems of Ermoldus Nigellus – Carey Fleiner
14. Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Imperium, exegesis, and the Breve Commemoratorium de casis Dei – Daniel Reynolds
15. The Carolingian legacy in Aquitanian historical culture (eighth-twelfth centuries) – Julien Bellarbre