1. Italy after Charlemagne: scope and aims of the volume Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl; 2. A brief introduction to Italian political history until 875 Clemens Gantner; Part I. Was There a Carolingian Italy?: 3. Talking about the Carolingians in eighth- and ninth-century Italy Thomas F. X. Noble; 4. The name of the kingdom Paolo Delogu; 5. Was there a Carolingian Italy? Politics, institutions and book culture François Bougard; Part II. Organizing Italy: 6. The government of a peripheral area: the Carolingians and north-eastern Italy Stefano Gasparri; 7. Vassals without feudalism in Carolingian Italy Giuseppe Albertoni; 8. Shaping a kingdom: the sees of Parma and Arezzo between the reigns of Louis II and Berengar Igor Santos Salazar; Part III. Carolingian Rulers: 9. Staying Lombard while becoming Carolingian? Italy under King Pippin Marco Stoffella; 10. Carolingian fathers and sons in Italy: Lothar I and Louis II's successful partnership Elina Screen; 11. A king in training? Louis II of Italy and his expedition to Rome in 844 Clemens Gantner; Part IV. Cities, Courts and Carolingians: 12. A Byzantine cuckoo in the Frankish nest? The Exarchate of Ravenna and the Kingdom of Italy in the long ninth century Tom Brown; 13. Urbanism as politics in ninth-century Italy Caroline Goodson; 14. Rome and the others: saints, relics and hagiography in Carolingian north-eastern Italy Francesco Veronese; 15. Between the palace, the school and the forum: rhetoric and court culture in late Lombard and Carolingian Italy Giorgia Vocino; Bibliography.