Nurse Mary: The Recollections of a Nurse During the American Civil War & Franco-Prussian War-Adventures of an Army Nurse in Two Wa

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Kingdom of the Lombards, Norman Conquest of Southern Italy, Kingdom of Sicily, Bucentaur, Patrimonium Sancti Petri, Italy in the Middle Ages, Condottieri, Medieval Corsica, Kingdom of Sardinia, Kingdom of Italy, Guelphs and Ghibellines, Duchy of Benevento, Duchy of Spoleto, Principality of Salerno, Drengot Family, March of Verona, Principality of Taranto, Petrarch's Library, Giudicati, Duchy of Rome, Signoria, Rule of the Dukes, March of Friuli, Austria, Catepanate of Italy, Longobardia, Neustria, Duchy of Friuli, March of Tuscany, Carroccio, Langobardia Minor, Italo-Norman, Pactum Sicardi, Trecento, Loritello, March of Turin, Arimannus, Treaty of Mignano, Palazzo Molina, Gonfaloniere, Iudiciaria Torrensis, March of Treviso, Terra Di Bari, Maona, Terra Sancti Benedicti, Donation of Sutri, Noveschi, Langobardia Major, Domusculta. Excerpt: The arimanni (singular arimannus ) were a warrior class of freemen in Lombard and later Frankish Italy . In contemporary documents arimanni are sometimes denominated as liberi homines (free men) or exercitales (soldiers).The ranks of the arimanni were originally filled by experienced warriors, the descendants of the Lombard freemen who invaded Italy in 569. The position of the arimanni declined after the Frankish conquest of 774. By the mid-ninth century, many Franks were also arimanni , no longer just Lombards. By the tenth century, the arimanni had declined to a position barely above that of serfs .The arimanni were typically small or medium landowners with a few tenants, or none, beneath them. They formed the basis of the Italian state as they owed it service, specifically oste et ponte et placito : army, bridge, and court services. This service was not mediated by feudal obligations. The arimanni held public offices at the local level. The ...