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Title Rethinking Norman Italy : studies in honour of Graham A. Loud / edited by Joanna H. Drell and Paul Oldfield
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Series Artes liberales
Artes liberales (Manchester, England)
Contents 1 Introduction: rethinking Norman Italy -- Joanna H. Drell<b>Part I: Historiographies</b>2 Norman Italy and Sicily through the eyes of British historians, 1912-76 -- David Abulafia3 The Norman Empire between the eleventh and twelfth centuries with special reference to the Normans in southern Italy -- Luigi Russo4 Historiography in the making: a name-list of Sicilian Muslims from the Rollus Rubeus cartulary of Cefalù cathedral -- Alex Metcalfe5 A fiscal provision of Count Roger of Ariano: traces of redactional variants in the <i>Chronicon</i> of Falco of Benevento -- Edoardo D'Angelo<b>Part II: Identities and communities</b>6 Crucible of faith: <i>fitna</i> in the <i>Travels</i> of Ibn Jubayr -- Joshua C. Birk7 <i>Bellum civile</i>: urban strife and conflict management in early twelfth-century Benevento -- Markus Krumm8 Norman rulers and Greek-speaking subjects: the <i>Vitae</i> of Italo-Greek saints (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) and the negotiation of local identities -- Eleni Tounta9 <i>Griffones</i> and the city of Messina: urban encounters with crusading -- Paul Oldfield<b>Part III: Religion and the Church</b>10 The foundation of St Euphemia in Calabria: a 'Norman' church in southern Italy? -- Benjamin Pohl11 King Roger II's legislation on the celebration of marriage -- Elisabeth van Houts12 The battle against simony in Norman Italy: perceptions, interpretations, measures and consequences -- Lioba Geis13 Some reflections on the women's monasteries of southern Italy in the eighth to twelfth centuries -- Jean-Marie Martin<b>Part IV: Conquering Norman Italy and beyond</b>14 The Norman siege of Bari, 1068-71 -- Charles D. Stanton15 The past, present and future of Norman rule in Apulia: Roger II's silver <i>ducalis</i> -- Sarah Davis-Secord16 From Alexandria to Tinnis: the kingdom of Sicily, Egypt and the Holy Land, 1154-87 -- Alan V. MurrayIndex
Summary 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: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-356) and index
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Subject Normans -- Italy, Southern -- History -- To 1500
Normans -- Italy -- Sicily -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Normans
SUBJECT Italy, Southern -- History -- 535-1268. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069039
Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 1016-1194. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122248
Subject Italy -- Sicily
Southern Italy
Genre/Form Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Drell, Joanna H., 1965- editor.
Oldfield, Paul (Lecturer in medieval history), editor.
ISBN 9781526138545
1526138549
9781526138552
1526138557