FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   >>  
swine on public lands. Cf. Chron. da Volturno, a. 972. Chron. Farfensis. Privileg. Lud. Pii, et al. loc. _g_. Terraticum, amount of produce given for right to cultivate. _h_. Pascuarium, payment for sheep pastured on the public land. _i_. Boazia, tax levied on every pair of oxen; probably not developed before XII. century. The taxes and so forth mentioned in this list are by no means all that were levied, but are a fair representation of them. After the year 1000 their feudal character is even more strongly marked. [42:] This statement, while true of all integral parts of the Lombard kingdom, must, however, be modified in regard to the great duchies of Spoleto and Beneventum, which were under a different system of internal government from the kingdom of Lombardy proper--were, in fact, small tributary kingdoms under great dukes enjoying practically royal powers. The Duchy of Beneventum seems to have been divided into _gastaldata_, divisions of territory similar to the _civitates_ of Lombardy, but presided over by a gastald instead of by a _dux_ or _comes_. In the charter of division made between the dukes of Beneventum and of Salerno in the year 851--v. _Muratori_, Ant. Ital. Diss. X.--are mentioned "integra gastaldata, seu ministeria Tarentum, Latinianum, Cusentia, etc." And, at an earlier date, _Paulus Diaconus_--De Gest. Long., Lib. V., cap. 29--tells of a certain "Alzeconis Dux de Bulgaris," to whom Grimoald, Duke of Beneventum, gives "ad habitandum ... Lepianum, Bovianum et Inferniam, et aliis cum suis territoriis civitates; ipsumque Alzeconem mutato dignitatis nomine, de duce gastaldium vocari praecepit." [43:] v. _Muratori_: Script. Rer. Ital., Tom. III., Pars II., p. 162D. [44:] _Liutprandi_: Leg. Lib. VI., Leg. 29. v. _Muratori_: Script. Rer. Ital., Tom. I., Pars II. [45:] _Muratori_: Ant. Ital. Diss. X., Vol. I., P. I., p. 121. [46:] _Muratori_: Script. Rer. Ital., Tom. III., p. 155A. [47:] Ed. _Rhotari_: Leg. 23 and 24. v. _Muratori_: op. cit., Tom. I., Pars II. [48:] _Liutprandi_: Leg. Lib. IV., 7. [49:] _Liutprandi_, Leg. Lib. IV., 8, says: "Si homines de sub uno Judice, de duobus tamen Sculdahis causam habuerint, etc." [50:] _Paulus Diaconus_: De Gest. Lang., Lib. VI., 24. [51:] _Muratori_: Ant. Ital. Diss. X., Vol. I., Parte II., p. 116. [52:] _Ughelli_: Italia Sacra, Tom. V. [53:] _Caroli Magni_, Leg. Lomb. 36: "Ut nullus homo in Placito Centenar
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   >>  



Top keywords:

Muratori

 
Beneventum
 

Liutprandi

 
Script
 

gastaldata

 

mentioned

 

Diaconus

 

civitates

 

Lombardy

 

kingdom


Paulus

 

public

 
levied
 

Grimoald

 

nullus

 

Lepianum

 
Centenar
 

Inferniam

 
Bovianum
 

Ughelli


Bulgaris
 

habitandum

 

Alzeconis

 

earlier

 

Cusentia

 

Latinianum

 

ministeria

 

Tarentum

 

integra

 

habuerint


Rhotari

 

Judice

 

duobus

 
Sculdahis
 
homines
 

vocari

 

gastaldium

 
praecepit
 

Placito

 

causam


nomine

 

ipsumque

 

Alzeconem

 

mutato

 

dignitatis

 
Italia
 

Caroli

 
territoriis
 

century

 

developed