Arabs And Normans In Sicily And The South Of Italy

Author : Adele Cilento,Alessandro Vanoli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arabs
ISBN : 1878351664

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Arabs and Normans in Sicily and the South of Italy by Adele Cilento,Alessandro Vanoli Pdf

This book is written by two expert scholars. It tells a fascinating story about a period during the Middle Ages when cultures collided and made war on each other over issues of politics, religion, and wealth (much like the present day). With many views of the famous mosaics in Cefal, Monreale, and Palermo, its 275 color illustrations and four maps provide a beautiful visual complement to an authoritative text.

Author : Ovidio Capitani,Giuseppe Galasso,Roberto Salvini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005395325

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The Normans in Sicily and Southern Italy by Ovidio Capitani,Giuseppe Galasso,Roberto Salvini Pdf

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Arabs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026508809

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Southern Italy and Sicily and the Rulers of the South by Francis Marion Crawford Pdf

Author : Gordon S. Brown
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786451272

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The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily by Gordon S. Brown Pdf

The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livelihood, but once there, found opportunity for fame and fortune. The story of the Norman conquest in Italy and Sicily is indeed one of knights and adventurers, great battles and lowly pillage, opportunism and statesmanship, and crusade and coexistence. This rich and often dramatic study focuses on the eight sons of Tancred of Hauteville, especially Robert Guiscard, who has been called "the most dazzling military ruler between Julius Caesar and Napoleon," and his youngest brother Roger, who conquered Sicily. It discusses how they expanded their lands throughout southern Italy, and then took Sicily from its Muslim rulers. The brothers, often in conflict with each other, challenged both the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire, became the main supporters of the reformed Papacy, and founded a rich, sophisticated kingdom that lasted until the nineteenth century.

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Arabs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010364896

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Southern Italy and Sicily and the Rulers of the South by Francis Marion Crawford Pdf

Author : Barbara M. Kreutz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205435

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Before the Normans by Barbara M. Kreutz Pdf

Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.

Author : Raffaele D’Amato,Andrea Salimbeti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472839473

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The Normans in Italy 1016–1194 by Raffaele D’Amato,Andrea Salimbeti Pdf

Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy. At first taking mercenary employment with Lombard rulers then fighting the Byzantine Empire in southern Italy, many of these noblemen achieved great victories, acquired rich lands of their own, and perfected a feudal military system that lasted for 200 years. As news of the rich pickings to be had in the south spread in Normandy, they were joined by many other opportunists – typically, younger sons who could not inherit lands at home. Steadily, these Norman noblemen fought their way to local power, at first in Apulia, then across the Adriatic in Albania, and finally in Muslim Sicily, defeating in the process the armies of Byzantium, the German 'Holy Roman Empire', and Islamic regional rulers. Finally, in 1130, Roger II founded a unified kingdom incorporating southern Italy and Sicily, which lasted until the death of Tancred of Lecce in 1194 – though its legacy long outlasted Norman political rule. This beautifully illustrated title explores not only the Norman armies, but the armies of their opponents, with full-colour plates and expert analysis revealing fascinating details about the fighting men of Normandy, Byzantium, the Arab armies and more.

Author : Joanna Drell,Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152617460X

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Rethinking Norman Italy by Joanna Drell,Paul Oldfield Pdf

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.

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342677675

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Southern Italy and Sicily and the Rulers of the South; by Francis Marion Crawford Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230238115

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Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy, 1016-1154 by Edmund Curtis Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... sole advantage remained with him. The Second Crusade therefore failed at all points, and left the power of the Atabegs still unchecked. The autumn and winter of 1148 and the spring of 1149 saw numbers of the greatest princes of the West returning home by sea. In September, Conrad left Acre, and landing at Thessalonica accepted Manuel's invitation to spend the winter at Constantinople. At the same time he received with anger the news of Roger's attack upon his ally, and the failure of the Crusade inclined him all the more to seek glory in Italy for his tarnished sword. He entered, therefore, into the most binding engagement with Manuel; the Sicilian was to be overwhelmed by a double attack, and envoys were despatched to win over Pisa and Venice. In February, 1149, Conrad departed for Germany, touching only for a moment upon Italian soil at Ancona. Manuel now came in person to press the siege of Corfu; the Greeks entered the fortress, but the Norman troops retired to the acropolis, which was of such a height that "the eye could scarcely measure it"; from here they poured down great stones and showers of darts "like fire showered from heaven." The Venetian fleet, spread around the promontory, cut off aid from the sea, and the Greek archers kept up a continuous fire, "aiming their arrows almost as it were against heaven or against the clouds."1 Louis meanwhile, having spent Easter in the Holy Land, set out homewards, full of anger against the Greeks and their ally Conrad. As the latter had avoided Roger, so Louis avoided the Greeks, and set his galleys towards Southern Italy. The French King's return revived Roger's hopes. At the moment George of Antioch was with sixty ships off Corfu attempting to raise the siege. He turned south apparently...

Author : Norman Daniel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Arabs
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005718825

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The Arab Impact on Sicily and Southern Italy in the Middle Ages by Norman Daniel Pdf

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Kings and rulers
ISBN : NYPL:33433070303056

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Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy, 1016-1154 by Edmund Curtis Pdf

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Arabs
ISBN : OCLC:1099650557

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A History of Southern Italy by Francis Marion Crawford Pdf

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535173009

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Roger of Sicily by Edmund Curtis Pdf

In 1016, the ruthlessly ambitious, but obscure, knights of the Norman House of Hauteville came to southern Italy and managed to create a kingdom of their own. Under its first king, Roger II, the Kingdom of Sicily, which included southern Italy, became the most cosmopolitan, tolerant, and enlightened state in Medieval Europe, where Muslims, Christians, Greeks, Normans, Lombards, Italians, Arabs, and Jews lived in relative harmony. By virtue of its strategic location and powerful navy it was at the center of the Mediterranean world. It was coveted by the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Almohad and the Fatimid Caliphates. Eventually, the Hauteville kings succumbed to the Hohenstauffen emperors, where the author ends his history, even though the kingdom continued on as a powerful and enlightened vassal state of the Holy Roman Empire.The author, Edmund Curtis, 1881 to 1943, was a professor of history at Trinity College in Dublin from 1914 to 1939, and an editor of Irish historical documents. His work, Roger of Sicily, covers Sicily's Norman period from 1016 to 1154.

Author : Graham A. Loud,Alex Metcalfe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004125418

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The Society of Norman Italy by Graham A. Loud,Alex Metcalfe Pdf

Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 120.II der Burgerbibliothek Bern. - Abb. auf Umschlag: f. 101r.