Mario Ioffredo, Presenze_slave_in_Italia_meridionale_sec.pdf
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A partire dal IX secolo si moltiplicarono, diversificandosi, le fonti che
indicano il possibile insediamento di comunità slave in Italia. Un passo della
raccolta di scritti contenuti nel manoscritto Vat. Gr. 167 dell’XI sec., comunemente
denominato come “Teofane Continuato”, narra che alla morte di
Danelis, ricca vedova di un condottiero slavo stanziatosi nel Peloponneso,
l’imperatore Leone VI, divenutone erede, affrancò i suoi tremila schiavi insediandoli
come colonia nel territorio del thema di Langobardia22
google-translate:
A step of the
collection of writings contained in the manuscript Vat. Gr. 167 of the XI century, commonly
called as "Theophanes Continuated", he tells that at the death of
Danelis, rich widow of a Slavic leader [wiki: from Patras] who settled in the Peloponnese,
Emperor Leo VI, having become heir, freed his three thousand slaves by settling them
as a colony in the territory of the Langobardia thema [22]
(22) 22 TEOFANE CONTINUATO, Chronographia, 77, Chronographiae quae Theophanis Continuati nomine fertur liber quo vita Basilii imperatoris amplectitur, recensuit anglice vertit indici bus instruxit I. ŠEVČENKO. Nuper repertis schedis C. DE BOOR adiuvantibus, Berlin-Boston 2011 (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, 42. Series Berolinensis), pp. 262-263.
Per la vicenda di Danelis si veda
S. RUNCIMAN, The Widow Danelis, in Études dédiées à la memoire d’André M. Andréadès, éditées par un comité d’amis et d’élèves sous la présidence de K. VARVARESSOS, Athens 1940, pp. 425-431;
V. VON FALKENHAUSEN, I Bizantini in Italia, in I Bizantini in Italia, a cura di G. CAVALLO ET AL., Milano 1993, pp. 1-136: 53 ritiene che l’insediamento sia avvenuto sotto Basilio I, tuttavia la fonte specifica che Danelis sopravvisse all’imperatore.
Si veda EAD., Taranto in epoca bizantina, in «Studi Medievali», S. III, IX, 1 (1968), pp. 133-166:
150 e nota 118.
Anche S. PALMIERI, Mobilità etnica e mobilità sociale nel Mezzogiorno longobardo, in
«Archivio per le Province Napoletane», n. XCIX, a. XX della S. III, (1981), pp. 31-104: 82,
nota 216 e ID., Le componenti etniche: contrasti e fusioni, in Storia del Mezzogiorno, III, L’Alto Medioevo,
a cura di G. GALASSO e R. ROMEO, Roma 1994, pp. 45-72: 54 reputa che lo stanziamento
sia avvenuto durante l’impero di Basilio I, con lo scopo di combattere i Saraceni.
google-translate:
Anche S. PALMIERI, ..., considers that the allocation occurred during the empire of Basil I, with the aim of fighting the Saracens.
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wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielis
Danielis (Greek: Δανιηλίς, Daniēlís, fl. 9th century AD) was a widowed Byzantine noblewoman from Patras.[1] According to the written tradition (continuing in the tradition of Theophanes) she was an extremely wealthy landowner, owning a significant part of the Peloponnese, as well as a flourishing carpet and textile industry.
Her estate, which she eventually bequeathed to the Emperor Leo VI, an estate ‘exceeding any private fortune and barely inferior to that of a ruler’, included 80 domains and over 3000 slaves whom the emperor sent as colonists to southern Italy.[3]
Danielis became acquainted with the future emperor Basil I the Macedonian during a visit he made in Patras when he was still an attendant of an imperial delegate.[3] For some reason or other, Danielis offered Basil lavish gifts and land property which proved useful in his subsequent ascent to the imperial throne. She also travelled to Constantinople with a large retinue, in order to visit Basil after he became emperor, in what the chronicles describe as an extravagant journey. Her loyalty to the throne was rewarded with the title of King's Mother (Basileomētōr). She outlived Basil I and named Basil's son Leo VI the Wise as her heir (886-912). Leo released 3,000 of her slaves and sent them to settle in Southern Italy.
(1). Alexander P. Kazhdan, ed. (1991). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium
(3). Mango, Cyril (1981). Byzantium : the empire of new Rome.
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