Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Introduction; The Norma in Southern Italy and Sicily; Geoffrey Malaterra and His Audience; Geoffrey Malaterra as a Historian; Maps; The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of His Brother Duke Robert Guiscard by Geoffrey Malaterra; Letter to Bishop Angers; Summary of …
List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables and Diagrams -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Counts of Norman Italy Before Roger II -- 2. The New Kingdom's Nobility and the Creation of the South Italian Counties -- 3. Leadership and Opposition of …
Whilst historians often regard the Norman Kingdom of Sicily as centralised and administratively advanced, County and Nobility in Norman Italy counters this traditional interpretation; far from centralised and streamlined, this book reveals how the genesis and social structures o…
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000-1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiog…
Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
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…
Roger II (c. 1095-1154), Sicily's first king, was an anomaly for his time. An ambitious new ruler who lacked the distinguished lineage so prized by the nobility, and a leader of an extraordinarily diverse population on the fringes of Europe, he occupied a unique space in the con…