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

THE WESTERN MEDITERR:'I.l\EAN Kll\GDOMS 1200-1500 of the Grimaldi family, Guelfs, earlier took control of the for- tress of Mona ...

ROBERT THE ~1SE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 a perversion of crusading ideals, a deviation from the prime objectives: crusades for the rec ...

THE \'.'ESTERN MEDITERRAI\EAN KINGDOMS 1200-1500 directly in north Italian politics. Ludwig of Bavaria posed a greater danger to ...

ROBERT THE WISE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 city to cover his expenses. Other Guelf communes nearby also accepted him; after three years ...

THE \YESTERI\ MEDITERR\NEAI\ KINGDOMS 1~00-1'1011 and yet Robert had managed to remain master of himself, an influential, agile ...

ROBERT THE WISE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 an important theatre of war since the Knights of StJohn of Jerusalem occupied Rhodes in 1310. ...

THE 'NESTER!\' MEDITERRANEAN Kll\'CDOMS 1200-1500 Calabria died in 1328, and a responsible prince was needed to help her rule he ...

ROBERT THE WISE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 thousand tons of wheat from Apulia. Charles de la Ronciere has counted over forty grants of e ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEA~ KINGDOMS 1200-L~OO The great banks, the Bardi, Peruzzi and Acciaiuoli, whose size was not even rivalle ...

ROBERT THE \\-1SE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 stimulate the economy: the careful protection of merchants travelling within the kingdom; i ...

THE ·wESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KI:--JGDOMS 1200-1500 his death in 1285, though after the loss of Sicily the tribute ')<-) was red ...

ROBERT THE WISE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 A WISE KING: ROBERT AND THE ARTS King Robert's 'wisdom' was most evident to his contempor- ar ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRA.NEAN KJNGDOMS 1200-1'100 Santa Chiara, for instance, where Robert and other Angevins are buried in lavish ...

ROBERT THE WISE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 provides a lively image of fourteenth-century Naples: nobles, bandits, merchants, and the des ...

THE WESTERN MEDITERRAJ'\EAN Kll'\CDOMS 1200-1500 of delivering sermons to the captive audience of his courtiers; he drew his tex ...

ROBERT THE WISE OF NAPLES, 1309-43 emperor since the days of Frederick II to be crowned in Rome, Henry VII of Luxembourg. The po ...

Chapter 7 SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY. IN AN AGE OF DISORDER THE ISLAND KINGDOM OF SICILY IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY Both Robert th ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER arrival in 1282 it had been clear that the Sicilian rebels saw their aim as the ...

THE \\'ESTERN MEDITERRANEAN KINGDOMS 1200-1.~00 the child king Ludovico came to the throne, a plaything in the hands of the riva ...

SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY IN AN AGE OF DISORDER Masters of themselves, the Chiaramonti and their rivals, known by the factional ...