Rethinking Norman Italy

Joanna H. Drell is Professor of History at the University of Richmond Paul Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester -- .

1 Introduction: rethinking Norman Italy – Joanna H. Drell
Part I: Historiographies
2 Norman Italy and Sicily through the eyes of British historians, 1912–76 – David Abulafia
3 The Norman Empire between the eleventh and twelfth centuries with special reference to the Normans in southern Italy – Luigi Russo
4 Historiography in the making: a name-list of Sicilian Muslims from the Rollus Rubeus cartulary of Cefalù cathedral – Alex Metcalfe
5 A fiscal provision of Count Roger of Ariano: traces of redactional variants in the Chronicon of Falco of Benevento – Edoardo D’Angelo
Part II: Identities and communities
6 Crucible of faith: fitna in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr – Joshua C. Birk
7 Bellum civile: urban strife and conflict management in early twelfth-century Benevento – Markus Krumm
8 Norman rulers and Greek-speaking subjects: the Vitae of Italo-Greek saints (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) and the negotiation of local identities – Eleni Tounta
9 Griffones and the city of Messina: urban encounters with crusading – Paul Oldfield
Part III: Religion and the Church
10 The foundation of St Euphemia in Calabria: a ‘Norman’ church in southern Italy? – Benjamin Pohl
11 King Roger II's legislation on the celebration of marriage – Elisabeth van Houts
12 The battle against simony in Norman Italy: perceptions, interpretations, measures and consequences – Lioba Geis
13 Some reflections on the women’s monasteries of southern Italy in the eighth to twelfth centuries – Jean-Marie Martin
Part IV: Conquering Norman Italy and beyond
14 The Norman siege of Bari, 1068–71 – Charles D. Stanton
15 The past, present and future of Norman rule in Apulia: Roger II’s silver ducalis – Sarah Davis-Secord
16 From Alexandria to Tinnis: the kingdom of Sicily, Egypt and the Holy Land, 1154–87 – Alan V. Murray
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