Luigi Andrea Berto is professor of Medieval History at Western Michigan University, USA. His research focuses on Medieval Italy and the Mediterranean, with a special interest in the use of the past in the medieval and modern periods, and the relationships between Christians and Muslims.

Abbreviations / Acknowledgments / Preface / The Muslims in the historical works of early medieval southern Italy / The Image of the Byzantines in the chronicles of early medieval southern Italy / Among two empires and dangerous neighbors: Byzantines, Franks, Lombards, and Muslims in ninth-century Naples / Invaders, dangerous allies, and hated neighbors: Ninth-century Southern Lombard views of the Franks and the Neapolitans /The Venetians and the others in the early Middle Ages: definitions and perceptions / History and Ethnic Pride in Southern Italy at the End of the Ninth Century / A Difficult Memory to Manage: Narrating the Relationships between Bishops and Dukes in Early Medieval Naples / Oblivion, Memory and Irony in ninth-century Montecassino / Old and new invaders: Lombards and Franks in Italian Carolingian Memory / Bibliography / Index

Focusing on how early medieval Italian authors portrayed that period and were, sometimes, influenced by their own 'present' in their reconstruction of the past, this book will appeal to scholars and students of otherness, identity, and memory in early medieval Italy alike.