The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily write by Gordon S. Brown. This book was released on 2015-05-12. The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
From Byzantine to Norman Italy
From Byzantine to Norman Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Byzantine to Norman Italy write by Clare Vernon. This book was released on 2023-01-26. From Byzantine to Norman Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzantine period and the upheaval of the Norman conquest. The book places Bari and Canosa in a Mediterranean context, arguing that international connections with the eastern Mediterranean were a continuous thread that shaped art and architecture throughout the Byzantine and Norman eras. Clare Vernon has examined a wide variety of media, including architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, epigraphy and luxury portable objects, as well as patronage, to illustrate how cross-cultural encounters, the first crusade, slavery and continuities and disruptions in the relationship with Constantinople, shaped the visual culture of the archdiocese. From Byzantine to Norman Italy will appeal to students and scholars of Byzantine art, the medieval Mediterranean and the Italo-Norman world.
Byzantino-Normannica
Byzantino-Normannica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Byzantino-Normannica write by Alexēs G. K. Savvidēs. This book was released on 2007. Byzantino-Normannica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The monograph, based on Greek, Latin and Old French primary sources (especially Anna Komnene's Alexiad and William of Apulia's Gesta Roberti Wiscardi), as well as on a wide range of secondary material available in several languages, attempts a detailed description of the first century of Byzantine-Norman relations, namely from the early 11th to the early 12th century, focusing on the first two Norman expeditions against Byzantium's Ionian and Helladic possessions (1081-1085 and 1107-1108). The diplomatic background related to the intricacies of Byzantium's external affairs in one of its most perplexed historical periods, is discussed throughout in detail, making use of pertinent research from recent decades when studies on Byzantine diplomatic history have progressed considerably. Of particular interest in this book is the prosopography of the period (both Byzantine and Western), while special attention is also given to matters of chronology as well as to the historical geography and topography of the locations involved in the Ionian Sea (Septinsular area), southern Albania and northwestern Hellas (especially Epeiros and western Macedonia). The background of the first two Norman invasions, delineating Byzantine-Norman contacts since the late 1030s until the eve of the first Norman campaign of 1080/81, is also treated by describing some interesting terms and connotations encountered in both Byzantine and Western sources.
The Society of Norman Italy
The Society of Norman Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Society of Norman Italy write by Graham A. Loud. This book was released on 2002-01-01. The Society of Norman Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 120.II der Burgerbibliothek Bern. - Abb. auf Umschlag: f. 101r.
Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108
Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 write by Georgios Theotokis. This book was released on 2014. Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics.
