This interdisciplinary study examines a list of 174 sworn mens names recorded in a legal manuscript from Upper Italy. It situates the list palaeographically, prosopographically, onomastically, and historically in the western Emilia region, showing that it was compiled as troops were being mobilized for a southern Italian campaign led by King Louis II in 847 against the Saracens, who had recently sacked Rome.

Stefan Esders, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Massimiliano Bassetti, Università di Bologna, Italy; Wolfgang Haubrichs, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany.