Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991 - 228 pages

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 des matières

The Beginnings
1
Southern Italy in the Early Ninth Century
9
The First Arab Impact
18
A Carolingian Crusade
36
Firming the Elements
55
Amalfi in Context
75
24
80
Trading with the Arab World
84
1993
101
The Late Tenth Century and South Italian Structures
116
The Eleventh Century and After
150
Notes
159
119
177
The Southern Lombard Rulers 7581000
209
134
223
Droits d'auteur

The Structures of Amalfitan Trade
90

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Page 219 - A. PERTUSI, Bisanzio e l'irradiazione della sua civiltà in Occidente nell'Alto Medioevo, in Centri e vie di irradiazione della civiltà nell'Alto Medioevo, Settimane di Studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, XI, Spoleto 1964, pp.

À propos de l'auteur (1991)

Barbara M. Kreutz was Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Bryn Mawr College.

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