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1 online resource (342 pages) |
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The Medieval World |
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Medieval world.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I Southern Italy before the Normans; The evolution of southern Italy; Government; Society; Chapter II The coming of the Normans; First contacts; Infiltration and early settlement; Normandy and Italy; Chapter III The conquest of the mainland; Apulia and Aversa in the 1040s; The Battle of Civitate and its aftermath; A conquest completed?; Chapter IV The conquest of Sicily; The early campaigns; The capture of Palermo; Consolidation and settlement |
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Chapter V The Normans, the papacy and the two empiresThe investiture of 1059; The papacy and southern Italy 1060-80; Robert Guiscard's attack on Byzantium; The papacy and southern Italy after 1085; Chapter VI Government and society in Norman Italy; Robert Guiscard and the aristocracy; The aristocracy and ducal government after 1085; The Church; Native and Norman; Conclusion; Genealogical tables; I The Hauteville kin; II The descendants of Robert Guiscard; III The Lombard princes of Capua and Benevento; IV The family of the Lombard princes of Salerno |
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V The Norman counts of Aversa and princes of CapuaVI The descendants of Amicus; VII The counts of the Principate; VIII The Guarna family of Salerno; Maps; I Southern Italy; II The Capitanata, Molise, Campania and the Basilicata; III Apulia; IV Sicily; V Robert Guiscard's campaigns against Byzantium, 1081-5; A brief guide to further reading; Index |
| Summary |
Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, approximately 1015-1085.
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| SUBJECT |
Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily, approximately 1015-1085 fast |
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Nobility -- Italy -- Sicily -- Biography
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Nobility -- Italy -- Naples (Kingdom) -- Biography
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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Nobility
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Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 1016-1194. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122248
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Naples (Kingdom) -- History -- 1016-1268. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85089735
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Naples (Kingdom)
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Italy -- Sicily
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317900238 |
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1317900235 |
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