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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Norman Sicily"”.
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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
The linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. From the classical Roman and Byzantine periods until the Arab invasions of 827, the majority of the island's population spoke either dialects of Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060, Arabic was …
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Commerce and coexistence: Muslims in the economy and society of Norman Sicily.
Sicily in the eleventh and twelfth centuries had a Muslim population under the control of Latin Christian conquerors. This dissertation aims to assess the economic role that these Muslims played in Norman Sicily, and how that economic role tied them into the society of Norman Sicily in general. …
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The stones of Roger II. A reappraisal of sculpture programmes and their architectural contexts in Norman Sicily
Over the past century, the visual culture of Norman Sicily has been widely scrutinized and a coherent interpretative framework established primarily through the study of architecture and mosaic. By comparison, scholarship on Sicilian sculpture has lagged behind and uncertainty persists about the …
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Signorie a Confronto. Gli Aleramici e gli Avenel-Maccabeo nella Sicilia normanna
Nell’ambito di questa ricerca, ci si è occupati di indagare le vicende dei due importanti casati della Sicilia del XII secolo: si è così cercato di porre nella giusta luce le figure di Enrico e Simone «del Vasto» nonché della dominatrix Adelicia. Di essi, attraverso lo studio delle pergamene …