The Society of Norman Italy

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12541-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 848 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

This book is a wide-ranging collection of essays about different aspects of the society of southern Italy and Sicily from the eleventh through to the thirteenth centuries. Of the eleven contributors, seven are from Continental Europe, most of whom have never before published in English. The volume devotes particular attention to the evolution of the social structure, to regional differences, the Church, and to the position of Greek and Arabic Christians and Muslims within the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. The authors, all acknowledged experts in this field, draw upon an unrivalled knowledge of the contemporary sources, both published and unpublished. This volume will therefore be a most important resource for both scholars and students of this fascinating area of medieval history, on which relatively little has hitherto been written in English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loud, Graham

Metcalfe, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.Preface.
List of Maps.
List of Contributors.
Abbreviations.
Genealogical chart.
Map of Southern Italy.

Introduction / Graham A. Loud…1

Pt. 1. Social and Regional Structures on the South Italian Mainland
1. Settlement and the Agrarian Economy / Jean-Marie Martin…17
2. The Northern Frontier of Norman Italy, 1060-1140 / Laurent Feller…47
3. The Tyrrhenian Coastal Cities under the Normans / Patricia Skinner.75
4. The Aristocratic Family / Joanna Drell…97

Pt. 2. Government and the Church.
5. Chanceries, Charters and Administration in Norman Italy / Horst Enzensberger…117
6. The Papacy and the Rulers of Southern Italy, 1058-1198 / Graham A. Loud…151
7. The Bishops of Southern Italy in the Norman and Staufen Periods / Norbert Kamp…185

Pt. 3. Calabria and Sicily.
8. The Papacy and the Greek Church in Southern Italy between the eleventh and the thirteenth Century / Peter Herde.213
9. The Greek Presence in Norman Sicily: The Contribution of Archival Material / Vera von Falkenhausen…253
10. The Muslims of Sicily under Christian Rule / Alex Metcalfe…289
11. Religious Toleration in the South Italian Peninsula during the Norman and Staufen Periods / Hubert Houben…319

Bibliography…341
Index…367

Über Autor(innen)

Graham A. Loud, Ph.D. (1978), Oxford, is Reader in Medieval Italian History at the University of Leeds. He has written extensively on the history of southern Italy from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries. His most recent books are The Age of Robert Guiscard. Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest (Longman, 2000) and Montecassino and Benevento in the Middle Ages. Essays in South Italian Church History (Variorum Collected Studies, 2000).
Alex Metcalfe, Ph.D. (2000), Leeds, is a British Academy post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. His first book is: Muslims and Christians in 'Norman' Sicily: Arabic Speakers and the End of Islam (Curzon Press).