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Located in the center of the Mediterranean, with access to both northern and southern shores of the sea as well as routes between east and west, Sicily appears to be an obvious candidate for the position of hub within medieval Mediterranean shipping and travel patterns. As a hub…

After exploring and analysing Robert Guiscard's invasion of the empire in the early 1080's, Bohemond's and Tancred's involvement in and around the First Crusade, and Bohemond's anti-Byzantine propaganda campaign and invasion of 1106-1108, this thesis will consider the short and …

This thesis examines the church of Sant’Adriano in the town of San Demetrio Corone in Calabria, Italy, as evidence of the development a multi-cultural society and “third space” during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The church is located in a sparsely populated area with few…

This dissertation examines inventiones, that is narratives of relic discoveries, written in southern Italy between the tenth and twelfth centuries. During this period, communities dealt with sweeping changes brought on by political upheaval, invasion, and ecclesiastical reforms.…