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The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (Medieval Texts in Translation) Paperback – January 11, 2008

by Luidprand (Author), Paolo Squatriti (Translator)
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This modern English translation of all the surviving literary compositions ascribed to Liudprand, the bishop of Cremona from 962 to 972, offers unrivaled insight into society and culture in western Europe during the "iron century." Since Liudprand enjoyed the favor of the Saxon Roman emperor Otto the Great, and traveled to Constantinople more than once on official business, his narratives also reveal European attitudes toward the Byzantine Empire and the culture of its refined capital city. No other tenth-century writer had such privileged access to the high spheres of power, or such acerbic wit and willingness to articulate critiques of the doings of powerful people.

Liudprand's historical texts (the Antapodosis on European events in the first half of the 900s, and his Historia Ottonis on the rise to power of Otto the Great) provide a unique view of the recent past against a genuinely European backdrop, unusual in a time of localized cultural horizons. Liudprand's famous satirical description of his misadventures as Ottonian legate at the Byzantine court in 968 is a vital source of information on Byzantine ritual and diplomatic process, as well as a classic of medieval intercultural encounter. This collection of Liudprand's works also includes his recently discovered Easter sermon, a rare early document of Jewish-Christian intellectual polemic.

Readers interested in medieval European culture, the history of diplomacy, Italian and German medieval history, and the history of Byzantium will find this collection of translated texts rewarding. A full introduction and extensive notes help readers to place Liudprand's writings in context.

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"Few medieval chroniclers are more enjoyable to read than Liudprand of Cremona, the well-traveled Italian courtier, ecclesiastic, and ambassador... Paolo Squatriti has done scholars and students an important service by offering fresh translations... plus the first rendering in English of a homily written by Liudprand... The translator has carefully combed the scholarly literature on Liudprand in English, Italian, and German, with emphasis on work done in the last twenty years. A synthesis of sorts appears in a substantial introduction... There follow four texts, in more or less chronological order, with extremely helpful explanatory and bibliographic notes aimed 'to ease the task of students in unraveling Liudprand's culture' (viii). The translation is accurate and faithful, navigating with considerable success the often choppy structure and precious style of Liudprand... Writer and translator seem to come fully into their own with 'Embassy,' a total treat to read here... Students will find much to learn about and chew over in each of these texts and by looking at them as a group... Squatriti has given students and scholars an English Liudprand for the twenty-first century that is an important resource for extending our understanding of the tenth."―Medieval Review

"At last―a new, up-to-date translation of the Works of Liudprand (or Liutprand) of Cremona. Paolo Squatriti's version has much to commend it. It moves away from the "forsooth language" of the old translation by F.A. Wright and builds on the more recent work of Brian Scott; it captures Liudprand's chameleon-like changes of style in an eminently readable version, and it provides a useful introduction to recent scholarly work on the author and his times. . . . As befits a translator who is both historian and literary scholar, Squatriti's introduction has much of interest to say. . . . A vivi"―

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Paolo Squatriti, associate professor of history and Romance languages and literatures at the University of Michigan, is author of Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy AD 400-1000 and editor of Natures Past: The Environment and Human History.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Catholic University of America Press; 1st edition (January 11, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813215064
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813215068
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 0.81 x 8.53 inches
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Stefano Nikolaou
5.0 out of 5 stars Important Primary Sources for 10th Century History
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2017
I bought this book for 'The Embassy of Liudprand'. The other works are an added extra.

I was surprised to learn that the text of the embassy only survived in a single manuscript that was subsequently lost after the printing of the first edition in 1600. I was under the impression that it was more widely disseminated than that.

Liudprand undertook an embassy to Constantinople on behalf of Otto to the Emperor Nikephoros Phocas in 968. The embassy is infamous for its rabidly anti-Byzantine attitude. Liudprand despises Byzantine food, protocols and dress. He finds retsina 'undrinkable', fish sauce gives him indigestion, he doesn't like garlic and thinks the Byzantines dress in an effeminate manner. Liudprand takes offence at little things like an interpreter taking an official letter from Liudprand rather than the emperor himself, or the Bulgarian envoys sitting closer to the emperor at a banquet than him or the emperor calling Liudprand a 'Lombard' rather than a Roman.

The most famous part of the 'Embassy' is the extremely unflattering description of the Emperor Nikephoros Phocas. Liudprand says 'He is a monstrous man, dwarfish, with a fat head, and mole-like by the virtue of the smallness of his eyes, deformed by a short beard that is wide and thick and grayling, disgraced by a finger-like neck...with an extended belly and scrawny buttocks, very long hips measured against his short height, small legs, flat feet, dressed in an ornamental robe, but one old and, by reason of its age and daily use, stinking and faded...' (page 240). Liudprand is fond of name calling and even has the disrespect to call Nikephoros an adulterer and perjurer (but not to his face).

Probably the last straw for Liudprand was when an imperial official confiscated his purple silks at the border (pages 271-172). The official claimed that purple silks were for imperial use only. Liudprand unkindly replied that prostitutes and degenerates wore purple silk in the west. Needless to say, he didn't get his silks back.

The notes are helpful in explaining some allusions in Liudprand's text. This document is nice evidence for the ongoing tensions between the Byzantine Emperors and the 'Holy Roman Emperors' for the leadership of Christendom.
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B. Jarvis
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I rate this item at 3 stars simply because its so specific I don't expect it would appeal to the average history reader. Liudprand had some obvious biases towards the Byzantines and he wasn't treated the way he thought he should have been while being a representative of the Papacy in Rome. However, there is some very good insight into attitudes and positions of religious authorities of the times. The Roman Catholic felt they should receive the same superior authority then as they did hundreds of years before when the Eastern Empire felt they had transcended subserviance to the Roman Church by that time....
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The Americanized English just doesn't accurately render this distant period.
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Panagiotis Agapitos
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent translation
Reviewed in Germany on November 24, 2023
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The excellent translation of Liudprand’s difficult works together a very informative and balanced introduction, is certainly a splendid achievement of Paolo Squadritti. I have enjoyed reading the book beyond its use for my own research.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fonte fondamentale (e introvabile) del secolo di ferro
Reviewed in Italy on July 13, 2021
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Benemerita pubblicazione di tutte le opere di Liutprando di Cremona, inclusa ovviamente la più nota Antapodosis, che sarebbero altrimenti pressoché introvabili. Per fare un esempio, la traduzione in lingua italiana dell'Antapodosis fatta pochi anni fa da Paolo Chiesa non è più reperibile.
Liutprando di Cremona è una fonte importante soprattutto per le vicende italiane X secolo (dall'anarchia a Ottone) ed anche per gli avvenimenti antecedenti dopo la dissoluzione dello stato carolingio. L'intervallo di secoli dell'alto medioevo italiano è coperto da ben pochi veri e propri autori storici, vengono in mente solo Paolo Diacono e Liutprando, ed è una fortuna sentire direttamente le loro voci. Sorvolo su alcune singolari recensioni che rimarcano quasi con sorpresa la parzialità, la posizione politica, i pregiudizi, la mentalità (la simpatia?) dell'autore, che sono anzi le caratteristiche più interessanti per chi sia interessato a percepire la distanza storica. Le lenti deformanti di Liutprando sono importanti quanto l'oggetto osservato.
Sull'edizione non ho competenze per esprimermi. Qualche recensione osserva che la traduzione in American English non rende la distanza temporale dal testo latino punteggiato di vocaboli greci (sfoggio di erudizione non comune dello stesso Liutprando). Sinceramente sarebbe stato un tentativo ridicolo provare a rendere in inglese antiquario, ma lo stesso sarebbe stato in italiano. Piuttosto avrei gradito il testo latino (e greco) a fronte, che realmente permetterebbe di penetrare la sintassi del tardo latino (quasi sicuramente ricercato) di Liutprando. Ma a caval donato...
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