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Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266 : the Norman-Swabian age and the identity of a people
- Title
- Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266 : the Norman-Swabian age and the identity of a people / Louis Mendola, Jacqueline Alio.
- Author
- Mendola, Louis
- Publication
- New York : Trinacria Editions, [2021]
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Alio, Jacqueline
- Description
- xxvi, 866 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Detailed historical survey of the Kingdom of Sicily under the Hauteville and Hohenstaufen monarchs. Includes bibliography, index"--
- "This is the first major history written in English about the Kingdom of Sicily under its Hauteville and Hohenstaufen dynasties in the High Middle Ages. Encompassing the island of Sicily and most of the Italian peninsula south of Rome, this multicultural society of Muslims, Jews, and Christians East and West, was a nexus where the civilizations of feudal Europe, Byzantine Asia, and Fatimid Africa flourished in synergy into the 13th century. Unlike most histories of the kingdom, this one brings the reader much information about social culture, such as the language and cuisine that emerged from this eclectic era to influence southern Italy and its people in ways still seen today. There are revealing chapters on the language popularized before Italian, and the culinary milieu that gave us spaghetti and lasagne. Women are never overlooked. Among them are Margaret of Navarre, regent for five years, Trota of Salerno, author of a medical treatise, Nina of Messina, the first woman known to compose poetry in an Italian tongue, and the unnamed Bint Muhammad ibn Abbad, who led a rebellion alongside her father. This long-awaited book presents an essential chronological history supplemented by concise sections on topics such as phylogeography, coinage, and heraldry, with dozens of maps and genealogical tables. It has hundreds of endnotes, a lengthy bibliography, a timeline, and appendices on regalia, the kingdom's first legal code, the coronation rite, the longest poem of the Sicilian School, and historiography. A long introduction explores sources, ethnic identity, historical views, and research methods, candidly dispelling a few myths."--
- Series Statement
- Sicilian medieval studies
- Uniform Title
- Sicilian medieval studies.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-829) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 24-332
- ISBN
- 9781943639403
- 194363940X
- 9781943639397
- 1943639396
- 9781943639410 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021947177
- OCLC
- 1402763705
- Author
- Mendola, Louis, author.
- Title
- Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266 : the Norman-Swabian age and the identity of a people / Louis Mendola, Jacqueline Alio.
- Publisher
- New York : Trinacria Editions, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Sicilian medieval studiesSicilian medieval studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-829) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Added Author
- Alio, Jacqueline, author.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 24-332