The French In The Kingdom Of Sicily 1266 1305

Author : Fellow and Tutor in History Jean Dunbabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 1139010212

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The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1305 by Fellow and Tutor in History Jean Dunbabin Pdf

"Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle Ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious, and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean Dunbabin shows how influence flowed as much from south to north as vice versa, and that France was strongly influenced by the experiences of those who returned after years of fighting in the Regno. As well as considering the experiences of notable crusading families, she sheds new light on the career of Robert II d'Artois, who virtually ruled the Regno for six years before returning to France to remodel the government of Artois. This comparative history of two societies offers an important new perspective on medieval Western Europe"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jean Dunbabin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500081

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The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305 by Jean Dunbabin Pdf

Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle Ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean Dunbabin shows how influence flowed as much from south to north as vice versa, and that France was strongly influenced by the experiences of those who returned after years of fighting in the Regno. As well as considering the experiences of notable crusading families, she sheds new light on the career of Robert II d'Artois, who virtually ruled the Regno for six years before returning to France to remodel the government of Artois. This comparative history of two societies offers an important perspective on medieval Western Europe.

Author : Jean Dunbabin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : 110721517X

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The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266-1305 by Jean Dunbabin Pdf

Author : Francis Joseph Lamb
Publisher : Green Cat Books
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781913794392

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Your Ancestry by Francis Joseph Lamb Pdf

I intended to title the book Our Ancestry but we have cousins and second cousins and third cousins in Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world. The title became Your Ancestry ,make a connection and we become cousins. Are your ancestors Major, Spearpoint, Warman and more? Connect to a Kent fishing community and stories of smuggling? Are your ancestors Lamb, Caffrey, Morgan, Brady and more? Connect to the north east and stories of legendary Irish princes and the truth staff of a saint? Are your ancestors Sharp, Simmons, Dawson, Austen, Boys and More? Connect to a line leading to the kings and queens of the Plantagenets? Connect to characters in the tv Series “The Last Kingdom”, Alfred the Great, Hywel Dda, Sigtrygg (Sitric Cáech)? Make this : YOUR ANCESTRY

Author : Elizabeth Casteen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501701009

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From She-Wolf to Martyr by Elizabeth Casteen Pdf

In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326–1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe’s most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign created a reputation that made Johanna the most notorious woman in Europe during her lifetime. In From She-Wolf to Martyr, Elizabeth Casteen examines Johanna’s evolving, problematic reputation and uses it as a lens through which to analyze often-contradictory late-medieval conceptions of rulership, authority, and femininity. When Johanna inherited the Neapolitan throne from her grandfather, many questioned both her right to and her suitability for her throne. After the murder of her first husband, Johanna quickly became infamous as a she-wolf—a violent, predatory, sexually licentious woman. Yet, she also eventually gained fame as a wise, pious, and able queen. Contemporaries—including Francesco Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Birgitta of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena—were fascinated by Johanna. Drawing on a wide range of textual and visual sources, Casteen reconstructs the fourteenth-century conversation about Johanna and tracks the role she played in her time’s cultural imaginary. She argues that despite Johanna’s modern reputation for indolence and incompetence, she crafted a new model of female sovereignty that many of her contemporaries accepted and even lauded.

Author : Jane E. Everson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : 9781843846710

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Charlemagne in Italy by Jane E. Everson Pdf

An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Chivalric tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were composed and circulated in Italy from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century (and indeed subsequently flourished in forms of popular theatre which continue today). But are they history or fiction? Myth or fact? Cultural memory or deliberate appropriation? Elite culture or popular entertainment? Oral or written, performed or read? This book explores the many depictions of the Emperor in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Beginning in the age of Dante with the earliest tales composed for Italians in the hybrid language of Franco-Italian, which draw inspiration from the French tradition of Charlemagne narratives, the volume considers the compositions of anonymous reciters of cantari and the prose versions of the Florentine Andrea da Barberino, before discussing the major literary contributions to the genre by Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto. The focus throughout is on the ways in which the portrait of Charlemagne, seen as both Emperor and King of France, is persistently ambiguous, affected by the contemporary political situation and historical events such as invasion and warfare. He emerges through these texts in myriad guises, from positive and admirable to negative and despised.

Author : Thomas Foerster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317126287

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Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers by Thomas Foerster Pdf

This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, his works were copied in elaborate manuscripts in almost all of Latin Europe. This wide distribution is particularly surprising for an author like Godfrey whom modern historians have never credited with any importance at all, as they considered his works chaotic and historically unreliable. Yet Godfrey was certainly one of the most daring historiographers of his time. In his works, the lineage of the Hohenstaufen emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI is traced directly to Charlemagne and Augustus, to the kings of Troy and of the Old Testament, and to Jupiter and everyone who, in his view, wielded imperial power in the past. Godfrey was a herald of the new political ideas the Hohenstaufen developed after the years of defeat against the papacy and the Italian communes, but also a universal chronicler whose interests reached far beyond the political issues of his day. Bringing together a group of specialists on manuscripts and historical writing in late medieval England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Bohemia and Poland, this volume aims to revive Godfrey’s reputation by demonstrating how his works were understood by medieval readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004349612

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The Crown of Aragon by Anonim Pdf

The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an important late medieval crossroads, that brought peoples from Iberia to Greece together and promoted culture as a means of cohesion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004375765

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Law and Language in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the relationship between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective, exploring not only how legal language expresses and advances power relations but also how the language of law legitimates power.

Author : Philip Bruce Baldwin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839163

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Pope Gregory X and the Crusades by Philip Bruce Baldwin Pdf

First full-length study of Pope Gregory X in relation to Crusade, demonstrating his significant impact.

Author : Guy Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107196902

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The Briennes by Guy Perry Pdf

The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.

Author : Stefan G. Holz,Jörg Peltzer,Maree Shirota
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110645200

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The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages by Stefan G. Holz,Jörg Peltzer,Maree Shirota Pdf

In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this imbalance by focusing on the materiality and various usages of rolls in late medieval England and France. Researchers from England, France, Germany and Singapore demonstrate in 11 contributions how this approach can increase our understanding of the rolls and their contents, as well as the contexts in which they were produced and used.

Author : Sean L. Field
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501736209

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Courting Sanctity by Sean L. Field Pdf

The rise of the Capetian dynasty across the long thirteenth century, which rested in part on the family's perceived sanctity, is a story most often told through the actions of male figures, from Louis IX's metamorphosis into "Saint Louis" to Philip IV's attacks on Pope Boniface VIII. In Courting Sanctity, Sean L. Field argues that, in fact, holy women were central to the Capetian's self-presentation as being uniquely favored by God. Tracing the shifting relationship between holy women and the French royal court, he shows that the roles and influence of these women were questioned and reshaped under Philip III and increasingly assumed to pose physical, spiritual, and political threats by the time of Philip IV's death. Field's narrative highlights six holy women. The saintly reputations of Isabelle of France and Douceline of Digne helped to crystalize the Capetians' claims of divine favor by 1260. In the 1270s, the French court faced a crisis that centered on the testimony of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, a visionary holy woman from the Low Countries. After 1300, the arrests and interrogations of Paupertas of Metz, Margueronne of Bellevillette, and Marguerite Porete served to bolster Philip IV's crusades against the dangers supposedly threatening the kingdom of France. Courting Sanctity thus reassesses key turning points in the ascent of the "most Christian" Capetian court through examinations of the lives and images of the holy women that the court sanctified or defamed.

Author : Gil Fishhof,Judith Bronstein,Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429515712

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Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century by Gil Fishhof,Judith Bronstein,Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel Pdf

Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century. In commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the construction of 'Atlit Castle, a significant section of this volume is dedicated to the castle, which was one of the most impressive built in the Latin East. Scholarly debate has centred on the reasons behind the construction of the castle, its role in the defence of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the thirteenth century, and its significance for the Templar order. The studies in this volume shed new light on diverse aspects of the site, including its cemetery and the surveys conducted there. Further chapters examine Cyprus during the thirteenth century, which under the Lusignan dynasty was an important centre of Latin settlement in the East, and a major trade centre. These chapters present new contributions regarding the complex visual culture which developed on the island, the relation between different social groups, and settlement patterns. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of the medieval period, as well as those interested in the Crusades, archaeology, material culture, and art history.

Author : Venetia Bridges,Corinne Saunders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846161

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Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature by Venetia Bridges,Corinne Saunders Pdf

Essays; medieval romance; Arthurian Iiterature; Elizabeth Archibald.