This essay examines the body of research devoted by Jean-Marie Martin – a French historian who passed away in 2021– to the cities of Southern Italy. It reviews several of his most significant studies on the urban centers of Apulia and Lucania, while also addressing the cities of present-day Campania, in order to underscore the originality and exemplary nature of his historiographical method. Martin’s approach combined a long-term perspective (from Late Antiquity to the Angevin period) with a historical analysis grounded in both documentary and material sources, interpreted through mul-tiple lenses. The resulting portrait is that of a scholar who was able to apply the French historiographical approach to “global” history in an original and innovative manner to the complex and multifaceted geographical context of medieval Southern Italy.
Le città italo-meridionali nella storiografia di Jean-Marie Martin
galdi amalia
2025
Abstract
This essay examines the body of research devoted by Jean-Marie Martin – a French historian who passed away in 2021– to the cities of Southern Italy. It reviews several of his most significant studies on the urban centers of Apulia and Lucania, while also addressing the cities of present-day Campania, in order to underscore the originality and exemplary nature of his historiographical method. Martin’s approach combined a long-term perspective (from Late Antiquity to the Angevin period) with a historical analysis grounded in both documentary and material sources, interpreted through mul-tiple lenses. The resulting portrait is that of a scholar who was able to apply the French historiographical approach to “global” history in an original and innovative manner to the complex and multifaceted geographical context of medieval Southern Italy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
