This volume presents the analysis, English translation, and critical edition of the Latin text of The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento, thus offering an important contribution for a better understanding of early medieval southern Italian (and Mediterranean) history.

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.

1. Introduction 2. Appendix A 3. Appendix B 4. Appendix C 5. Genealogy of the Capuan dynasty 6. Bibliography 7. Erchempert, Little History of the Lombards of Benevento 8. Erchempertus, Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum degentium