Roger Of Sicily And The Normans In Lower Italy 1016 1154 Classic Reprint

Author : Edmund Curtis M. A.
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 574 pages
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Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0656944641

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Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy, 1016-1154 (Classic Reprint) by Edmund Curtis M. A. Pdf

Excerpt from Roger of Sicily and the Normans in Lower Italy, 1016-1154 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2023-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3348111463

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Roger of Sicily by Edmund Curtis Pdf

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 112 pages
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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 : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
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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 : Frank Northen Magill,Alison Aves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1072 pages
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Release : 1998
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781579580414

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Dictionary of World Biography by Frank Northen Magill,Alison Aves Pdf

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136593130

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The Middle Ages by Frank N. Magill Pdf

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Author : Raffaele D’Amato,Andrea Salimbeti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Church history
ISBN : UOM:39015082937841

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Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada: Roc-Z. Manuscript microfilm catalogue, authors A-Z by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Library Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Subject catalogs
ISBN : PSU:000052022289

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Library of Congress Catalog by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082932529

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Library of Congress Catalogs by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015080215851

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新收洋書総合目錄 by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082983720

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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by New York Public Library. Research Libraries Pdf

Author : Raffaele D'Amato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Normans
ISBN : 1472839455

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The Normans in Italy 1016-1194 by Raffaele D'Amato Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1977-03-31
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210122250

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf

Here's quick access to more than 490,000 titles published from 1970 to 1984 arranged in Dewey sequence with sections for Adult and Juvenile Fiction. Author and Title indexes are included, and a Subject Guide correlates primary subjects with Dewey and LC classification numbers. These cumulative records are available in three separate sets.

Author : Gordon S. Brown
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 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.