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Title A companion to medieval Palermo : the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 / edited by Annliese Nef ; French and Italian texts translated by Martin Thom
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 542 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Brill's companions to European history, 2212-7410 ; volume 5
Brill's companions to European history ; v. 5.
Contents The medieval history of Palermo in a new light / Annliese Nef -- Palermo in the eastern Roman empire / Vivien Prigent -- Islamic Palermo and the Dar al-Islam : politics, society and the economy (from the mid-9th to the mid-11th century) / Annliese Nef -- From a small town to a capital : the urban evolution of Islamic Palermo (9th-mid-11th century) / Alessandra Bagnera -- Palermo experienced, Palermo imagined : Arabic and Islamic culture (9th to 12th-centuries) / Mirella Cassarino -- Norman Palermo : the capital of a kingdom or the dream scene of an empire? / Annliese Nef -- Norman Palermo : architecture between the 11th and 12th century / Rosi Di Liberto -- Palermo in the 12th century : transformations in forma urbis / Elena Pezzini -- Palermo in the 14th-15th century : urban economy and trade / Henri Bresc -- Palermo in the 14th-15th century : the urban society / Igor Mineo -- Palermo as a stage for, and a mirror of, political developments from the 12th to the 15th century / Laura Sciascia -- The city of foreigners : Palermo and the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 15th century / Gian Luca Borghese -- Religious Palermo : a panorama between the 12th and the 15th centuries / Henri Bresc -- Monreale from its origin to the end of the Middle Ages / Sulamith Brodbeck -- Linguistic cultures and textual production in Palermo, from the end of the 11th to the end of the 15th century / Benoît Grévin -- The Jews of Palermo from late antiquity to the expulsion (598-1492) / Giuseppe Mandalà -- Citizens and freedom in medieval Sicily / Fabrizio Titone
Summary The Companion to Medieval Palermo offers a panorama of the History of Medieval Palermo from the sixth to the fifteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
Historia.
SUBJECT Palermo (Italy) -- History -- To 1500
Subject Italy -- Palermo
Palermo
Italien -- Palermo.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Nef, Annliese, author, editor.
Thom, Martin, translator
ISBN 9789004252530
9004252533