Il palatium del vescovo : mutamento e sperimentazione istituzionale a Lucca (1080-1130 ca.)

The paper investigates the re-functionalization of the highly connoted term palatium in Lucca between the late 11th and early 12th centuries (approximately 1080-1130). Until 1081, the term was reserved for a specific building: the palatium domini Imperatoris, the core of the power of the Marquises of Tuscia. Following the crisis of the March, the bishops of Lucca appropriated the term, using it to construct for themselves a new seigneurial profile and, at least in the case of Benedetto, to assert a claim to hegemony over the city community [Publisher's text].

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