Presents the life of the eleventh-century English queen, Emma, who was the mother of two kings and who ruled when England was threatened by a power struggle between Saxons, Normans, and invading Vikings.
Presents the life of the eleventh-century English queen, Emma, who was the mother of two kings and who ruled when England was threatened by a power struggle between Saxons, Normans, and invading Vikings.
Presents the life of the eleventh-century English queen, Emma, who was the mother of two kings and who ruled when England was threatened by a power struggle between Saxons, Normans, and invading Vikings.
When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a generation these men would have seized control of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily.
When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a generation these men would have seized control of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. How did they m…
Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
"This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one of the most fascinating but also one of the most neglected kingdoms in the medi…
Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
"This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one of the most fascinating but also one of the most neglected kingdoms in the medi…
Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
"This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine, and Arab-Islamic cultures and one of the most fascinating but also one of the most neglected kingdoms in the medi…
Introduction. Writing the history of the Zirids and Normans -- Geographic orientations and the rise of the Fatimids -- The contest for Sicily in the eleventh century -- Commerce and conflict from 1087 to 1123 -- The end of the emirate and the beginning of the kingdom -- The Norm…
"This book examines the interconnected histories of the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the Middle Ages. In doing so, it shows the substantial economic, political, and cultural connections between them as well as the larger importance of the Zirids to the his…