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- Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xxi
- Introduction
- pp. xxiii-xxxi
- 1. The Beginnings
- pp. 1-17
- 2. The First Arab Impact
- pp. 18-35
- 3. A Carolingian Crusade
- pp. 36-54
- 4. Firming the Elements
- pp. 55-74
- 5. Amalfi in Context
- pp. 75-93
- 9. Epilogue: The Eleventh Century and After
- pp. 150-158
- Bibliography
- pp. 211-222
Additional Information
ISBN
9780812205435
Related ISBN(s)
9780812215878
MARC Record
OCLC
551660043
Pages
268
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1992