(11-08-2016, 02:11 AM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP
I think you may need to re-consider the way in which you've used sources having an outdated understanding of the term 'Langobard', and evidently unaware that there is a current debate among specialists as to whether it was correct that the older historians, and especially those of a particular kind of English and German writing, assumed that the sense in which 'Langobard' is used of the sixth century should be applied to its use in medieval documents written in Latin.
I offer this simply as advice, not as argument.
Diane, I've never used the term 'Langobard'.
I have used the term Lombard in reference to southern Scandinavians who migrated south and colonized a number of regions in the Greek islands, southern Italy, and northern Italy (the area known as Lombardy). Lombardy still exists but is much smaller than it was in earlier centuries). I have also referred to the Lombard language, which is still spoken in parts of current-day Lombardy, but which may be extinct in another generation or two as the current generation is adopting Italian as their main language.
I've also never referred to Lombard documents. I have referred to documents that were written or transmitted in regions where there was a significant Lombard presence. Those are two different things. The Lombardic presence in those regions is important because political/cultural connections have a strong influence on how information and documents are passed from hand to hand (e.g., in reference to a manuscript's provenance).