The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily

Author: Gordon S. Brown

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-05-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0786451270

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The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livelihood, but once there, found opportunity for fame and fortune. The story of the Norman conquest in Italy and Sicily is indeed one of knights and adventurers, great battles and lowly pillage, opportunism and statesmanship, and crusade and coexistence. This rich and often dramatic study focuses on the eight sons of Tancred of Hauteville, especially Robert Guiscard, who has been called "the most dazzling military ruler between Julius Caesar and Napoleon," and his youngest brother Roger, who conquered Sicily. It discusses how they expanded their lands throughout southern Italy, and then took Sicily from its Muslim rulers. The brothers, often in conflict with each other, challenged both the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire, became the main supporters of the reformed Papacy, and founded a rich, sophisticated kingdom that lasted until the nineteenth century.

The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily

Author: Gordon S. Brown

Publisher: McFarland & Company Incorporated Pub

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780786414727

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"This book is not an effort to tell the whole story of the Normans in Italy. It attempts, instead, to follow the main threads of the early period: how these interlopers from northern Europe managed to find their historical role in the Italian provinces of the Byzantine Empire, how they succeeded in replacing the Byzantine and local rulers, and then how they drove the Arab rulers out of Sicily. In focusing on the protracted period of the conquest, that is, the second half of the eleventh century, this book sets out in particular an account of the achievements of that remarkable set of brothers, the sons of Tancred of Hauteville, who spearheaded the effort"--Preface.

Before the Normans
Before the Normans

Author: Barbara M. Kreutz

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2011-06-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 081220543X

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Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.

The Age of Robert Guiscard
The Age of Robert Guiscard

Author: Graham Loud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-10

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1317900235

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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.

Rethinking Norman Italy
Rethinking Norman Italy

Author: Joanna H. Drell

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1526138557

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This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours and reflects the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses and recasts the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been conventionally understood, addressing varied subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest. The chapters revise and refine our understanding of Norman Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, demonstrating that it was not just a parochial Norman or Mediterranean entity but also an integral player in the medieval mainstream.

The Society of Norman Italy
The Society of Norman Italy

Author: Graham A. Loud

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9789004125414

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The History of the Normans
The History of the Normans

Author: Amato (di Montecassino)

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781843830788

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The Norman conquest of southern Italy and Sicily was one of the most dramatic events of the eleventh century. To understand the magnitude of the Normans' achievement, and especially those of Robert Guiscard and Richard of Aversa, it is essential to know something of the world in which they lived and the manner in which they were able to create a Norman state in territories with a very different cultural tradition.

Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy
Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy

Author: G. A. Loud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this text. It looks at the Norman relations with the Byzantine world, and includes several studies on the church.

The Age of Robert Guiscard
The Age of Robert Guiscard

Author: Graham Loud

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-10

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1317900227

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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.