Resilience in Southern Italy under the Early Angevin Rulers (1266–1309)

这个项目调查了安茹王朝早期国王查理一世和查理二世（1266-1309）统治下西西里王国的应对、适应和转型的潜力。它考虑了两个破坏性的现象：霍亨斯陶芬王朝的暴力结束和1282年西西里晚祷，这开始于对安茹统治的反抗，但最终导致意大利南部分裂为阿拉贡人统治下的岛屿王国和安茹人统治下的大陆王国。该项目旨在追踪复原过程和在其中起作用的策略，主要由安茹和他们建立的皇家法院（magna curia regia）发起和使用。这些策略最初是为了稳定安茹的统治和安茹王朝在意大利南部。在第一个资助期，我们的分析集中在经济部门的分层治理模式和效果；在第二个筹资期，我们将重点关注城市社区参与西西里晚祷之后几十年的政治决策过程。城市的参与在这一时期获得了越来越多的独立性，这既是新的，也是皇家宫廷设计的一种弹性策略。该项目将进行两方面的调查：首先，它将研究城市特权的皇家特许状；其次，它将关注城市及其代理人自治的内部过程。这样，政府在外部威胁的推动下采取的措施，就会与内部的前提条件和后果相关联。这种相互作用，以连续性和非连续性的辩证关系为特征，倾向于通过零星授予城市自由来稳定王室统治。

This project investigates the potentials of coping, adaptation, and transformation in the Kingdom of Sicily under the early Angevin kings, Charles I and Charles II (1266–1309). It takes account of two disruptive phenomena: the violent end of the Hohenstaufen dynasty and the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, which began as a revolt against Angevin rule but eventually led to the breaking up of Southern Italy into an island kingdom under the Aragonese and a mainland kingdom of the Anjou. The project aims to trace the resilience processes and the strategies at work in them, mainly initiated and used by the Anjou and by the royal court (magna curia regia) they had established. These strategies were originally aimed at stabilizing Angevin rule and the Angevin dynasty in Southern Italy. During the first funding period our analysis focused on the modes and effects of hierarchical governance on the economic sector; during the second funding period we will concentrate on the participation of urban communities in the political decision-making process during the decades following the Sicilian Vespers. The participation of the cities, which were gaining more and more independence during this period, was both new and designed as a resilience strategy by the royal court. The project will follow two lines of investigation: First, it will look at the royal charters of urban privileges; second, it will focus on the internal processes of autonomy within the cities and their agents. In this way the government’s measures, set in motion by external threats, will be correlated with the internal preconditions and consequences. The mutual effects, characterized by a dialectic of continuity and discontinuity, tended towards stabilizing royal rule by means of piecemeal grants of urban liberties.