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The Norman admiralty : history of an office between two worlds / Francesco Carbonaro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carbonaro, Francesco, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employees.
- Sicily (Italy)--Officials and employees--History--To 1500.
- Sicily (Italy).
- Italy--Sicily.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 236 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, [2021]
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Chronological terms and subject of the research
- Modus operandi
- Charters
- Historiography
- Cultural works and connections
- Etymology of the term admiral
- Status quaestionis
- Part 1
- Birth of the Norman admiralty (1086-1095)
- The origins of the Norman admiralty and Petrus Bido
- The first changes of the admiralty and Eugenius (I)
- Christodulo and George ofAntioch, the first great admirals (1097-1152)
- Christodulo and the admiralty during Adelasia's regency
- George and the birth of the admirals' council and of the dohana
- Cultural relevance of the admirals in the first half of the 12th century
- The story of Philip of Mahedia and the change of perspective
- Part 2
- William I and the power ofMaio (1156-1160)
- The rise of Maio
- Maio and the re-organization of the kingdom
- The murder of Maio (1160)
- Henry Aristippus and his admiralty ad interim (1160-1162)
- Maio and Henry, great characters of the cultural world
- Part 3
- The chancellery ofStephan ofPerche and the disappearance of the admiralty (1162-1170)
- The admiralty loses importance and new members of the court acquire power
- Re-birth of the admiralty (1177-1189)
- The division of the office (1177-1185)
- Eugenius II, man of culture in the dohana
- German invasion and the struggle for the throne (1189-1197)
- Margaritus, admiral in the battle for the throne
- Margaritus and Eugenius at the sunset of the Norman kingdom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3832553002
- 9783832553005
- OCLC:
- 1262165124
- Publisher Number:
- 99988492274
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