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This is a detailed guide to the kingdom that flourished in southern Italy from 1734 until its annexation to the unified Italy in 1861. As an introduction, it is an abridged edition of the author's print book of the same title, containing the complete main text but without the endnotes, bibliography or specialized appendices on topics such as orders of knighthood and titles of nobility. That volume is the first major history of the kingdom published...
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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.
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Covering seven eventful centuries, this is the first complete history of the Kingdom of Sicily ever published.
The lively narrative traces the history of Sicily from the foundation of its multicultural kingdom under the Normans in the twelfth century to the end of its baroque monarchy in the nineteenth, with framing chapters covering the periods before and afterward. Here, in a text dripping with eloquence, passion and fact after fact, a leading...
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Some travel books transport you over distance. This one takes you back in time.
It's the perfect book to read before you get to Sicily, and to consult when you're there.
This is the first guide written in English dedicated to the polyglot medieval heritage of three Sicilian cities where Europe met Africa and Asia for three magical centuries. Here two of Sicily's leading historians present accurate, timeless information about the Norman, Arab and...
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