I due volti del potere

A comprehensive and long-lasting study dedicated to the Hucpoldingi, an object of research so far difficult to classify for scholars. Combined with the supposed comital government of the city of Bologna from the nineteenth-century erudition, the Hucpoldingi remained for a long time on the margins of the reconstructions of political history of the early medieval Italic kingdom precisely because of the amplitude of action that characterized the parental group for more than two centuries , from IX to XI. The geographical dispersion of the documentary funds that attest their action has made them elusive for a long time, as a whole. The research deals with the reconstruction of the political events of the different members of the kinship, of their heritage and of the clientele connected to them in the various sectors of the kingdom. Finally, it examines the peculiar elements of the group, from which the characteristics of their power emerge, the memory strategies and the notions of self-awareness common to different individuals.