The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms_ The Struggle for Dominion, 1200-1500

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PART I THIRTEENTH-CENTURY CHALLENGES ...

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Chapter 1 THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM THE LURE OF THE SOUTH The Norman Kingdom of Sicily and southern Italy, founded in ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN Kll\iGDOMS 1~00-1500 The great Italian liberal historian, Benedetto Croce, tried in 1924 to disentan ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM financial emergency; there is no record of either give-and-take with the king or legal oppos ...

THE V\'ESTERN MEDITERR-\NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 LAND AND PEOPLE The lands the Normans and their successors conquered possessed n ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM south Italian kingdom.^5 Finally, the island of Sicily, rich in grain-productive uplands, es ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAJ\ KINGDOMS 1200-1500 worry about a serious recovery of Byzantine control in all of southern Italy.^7 Ne ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM valuable to the warring parties in southern Italy-Byzantine and Lombard-that they inserted t ...

THE WESTERN lv!EDJTERR\NEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 and hold this frontier area against the danger of an Islamic resurgence.^11 The r ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM were also an issue: the problem of whether the barons could over-ride the assumed rights of ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRAt\EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1'100 ability to assimilate rapidly into the surrounding society.~'' Memories of common ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM Ambitious foreign adventures under the Normans pre- figured later expeditions by Sicilian ru ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN Kll\GDOMS 1200-1500 and other goods produced in Sicily. This was the beginning of a slow process by wh ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM south, Pope Celestine was well aware of the dangers he would face if the western emperor add ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERR~I\:E,\\1 KIN(;DOMS 1200-J',OO and to elevate him to a special place as the enlightened despot of the thirte ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM they were cut off from easy contact with the Islamic world and yet could provide the emperor ...

THE WESTER!\ :'viEDITERRA.J\E.\1\ Kll\CDOl\IS I ~00-1:100 in the silver coinage during the 1220s and the issue of a fine gold co ...

THE ORIGINS OF THE SICILIAN KINGDOM to the Lombards as it had against Frederick II's German grandfather Frederick Barbarossa in ...