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Rethinking Norman Italy: studies in honour of Graham A. Loud / edited by Joanna H. Drell and Paul Oldfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Artes liberales (Manchester, England)
- Artes liberales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Normans--Italy, Southern--History--To 1500.
- Normans.
- Normans--Italy--Sicily--History--To 1500.
- History.
- Italy, Southern--History--535-1268.
- Italy, Southern.
- Southern Italy.
- Sicily (Italy)--History--1016-1194.
- Sicily (Italy).
- Italy--Sicily.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: rethinking Norman Italy p. 1 / Joanna H. Drell
- Part I Historiographies
- 2 Norman Italy and Sicily through the eyes of British historians, 1912-76 p. 15 / David Abulafia
- 3 The Norman Empire between the eleventh and twelfth centuries with special reference to the Normans in southern Italy p. 29 / Luigi Russo
- 4 Historiography in the making: a name-list of Sicilian Muslims from the Rollus Rubeus cartulary of Cefalù cathedral p. 46 / Alex Metcalfe
- 5 A fiscal provision of Count Roger of Ariano: traces of redactional variants in the Chronicon of Falco of Benevento p. 93 / Edoardo D'Angelo
- Part II Identities and communities
- 6 Crucible of faith: fitna in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr p. 113 / Joshua C. Birk
- 7 Bellum civile: urban strife and conflict management in early twelfth-century Benevento p. 132 / Markus Krumm
- 8 Norman rulers and Greek-speaking subjects: the Vitae of Italo-Greek saints (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) and the negotiation of local identities p. 152 / Eleni Tounta
- 9 Griffones and the city of Messina: urban encounters with crusading p. 171 / Paul Oldfield
- Part III Religion and the Church
- 10 The foundation of St Euphemia in Calabria: a 'Norman' church in southern Italy? p. 191 / Benjamin Pohl
- 11 King Roger II's legislation on the celebration of marriage p. 212 / Elisabeth van Houts
- 12 The battle against simony in Norman Italy: perceptions, interpretations, measures and consequences p. 227 / Lioba Geis
- 13 Some reflections on the women's monasteries of southern Italy in the eighth to twelfth centuries p. 245 / Jean-Marie Martin
- Part IV Conquering Norman Italy and beyond
- 14 The Norman siege of Bari, 1068-71 p. 265 / Charles D. Stanton
- 15 The past, present and future of Norman rule in Apulia: Roger II's silver ducalis - Sarah Davis-Secord p. 284
- 16 From Alexandria to Tinnis: the kingdom of Sicily, Egypt and the Holy Land, 1154-87 p. 305 / Alan V. Murray.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-356) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781526138545
- 1526138549
- Publisher Number:
- 40030595659
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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