A companion to medieval Palermo : the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 / edited by Annliese Nef ; French and Italian texts translated by Martin Thom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nef, Annliese, author, editor.

Contributor:

Thom, Martin, translator.

Series:

Brill's companions to European history ; v. 5.

Brill's companions to European history, 2212-7410 ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palermo (Italy)--History--To 1500.

Palermo (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 542 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Companion to Medieval Palermo offers a panorama of the history of Medieval Palermo from the sixth to the fifteenth century. Often described by contrast with the communal reality of Medieval Italy as submitted to a royal (external) authority, the city is here given back its density and creativity. Important themes such as artistic and literary productions, religious changes or political autonomy are thus explored anew. Some fields recently investigated are the object of particular scrutiny: the history of the Jews, Byzantine or Islamic Palermo are among them. Contributors are Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent, Alessandra Bagnera, Mirella Cassarino, Rosi Di Liberto, Elena Pezzini, Henri Bresc, Igor Mineo, Laura Sciascia, Gian Luca Borghese, Sulamith Brodbeck, Benoît Grévin, Giuseppe Mandalà, and Fabrizio Titone.

Contents:

The medieval history of Palermo in a new light / Annliese Nef

Palermo in the eastern Roman empire / Vivien Prigent

Islamic Palermo and the Dar al-Islam : politics, society and the economy (from the mid-9th to the mid-11th century) / Annliese Nef

From a small town to a capital : the urban evolution of Islamic Palermo (9th-mid-11th century) / Alessandra Bagnera

Palermo experienced, Palermo imagined : Arabic and Islamic culture (9th to 12th-centuries) / Mirella Cassarino

Norman Palermo : the capital of a kingdom or the dream scene of an empire? / Annliese Nef

Norman Palermo : architecture between the 11th and 12th century / Rosi Di Liberto

Palermo in the 12th century : transformations in forma urbis / Elena Pezzini

Palermo in the 14th-15th century : urban economy and trade / Henri Bresc

Palermo in the 14th-15th century : the urban society / Igor Mineo

Palermo as a stage for, and a mirror of, political developments from the 12th to the 15th century / Laura Sciascia

The city of foreigners : Palermo and the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 15th century / Gian Luca Borghese

Religious Palermo : a panorama between the 12th and the 15th centuries / Henri Bresc

Monreale from its origin to the end of the Middle Ages / Sulamith Brodbeck

Linguistic cultures and textual production in Palermo, from the end of the 11th to the end of the 15th century / Benoît Grévin

The Jews of Palermo from late antiquity to the expulsion (598-1492) / Giuseppe Mandalà

Citizens and freedom in medieval Sicily / Fabrizio Titone.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Companion to medieval Palermo

ISBN:

9789004252530

9004252533

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004252530 DOI