Lordships Of Southern Italy

Author : Sandro Carocci
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ISBN 13 : 9788867287734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lordships of Southern Italy written by Sandro Carocci and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the real nature of medieval lordship in southern Italy? What can this region and its history bring to the great European debates on feudalism and aristocratic powers, their structures and evolution, and their social and economic impact? What contribution can the Kingdom of Sicily make to studies of the relationships between sovereigns, nobilities and peasant societies? And can the study of seigneurial powers and rural societies reshape the old arguments regarding the economic backwardness of the Mezzogiorno (the South of Italy) and the central role of its monarchy? This book offers the first systematic analysis of lordship in southern Italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, under the Norman, Staufen and early Angevin kings. It offers new interpretations of the powers of the nobility, and of rural societies and royal policy. It reveals the complexity of interactions between the king, nobles and peasants, and how they occurred and were expressed through laws and violence, feudal relations and economic investments, debates on freedom and serfdom, and the exploitation of people and natural resources. In these interactions a leading role is played by peasant societies - with previously unsuspected levels of dynamism - to set against that of the kings, who were determined to curb aristocratic powers, and of the nobles who were obliged to adapt their lordship in response to powerful rural societies and crown policies. What emerges is a hitherto unseen Mezzogiorno, vital and complex, whose study allows a deeper understanding not only of the affairs of the South but of many other regions of Europe.

Author : Gordon S. Brown
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451270
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily written by Gordon S. Brown and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Foote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lordship, Reform, and the Development of Civil Society in Medieval Italy written by David Foote and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bishoprics that emerged in the town of Orvieto in Umbria in the 12th century became an important institution for accessing and reforming political and ecclesiastical power.

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Italy and Sicily and the Rulers of the South written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Southern Italy and Sicily and the Rulers of the South written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Antonio Antonetti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527529096
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Various Models of Lordship in Europe between the Ninth and Fifteenth Centuries written by Antonio Antonetti and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of lord represented one of the most original solutions to the political and social transitions of the Medieval period. Questions still remain unanswered and require further investigation, thus many scholars have collaborated to produce this collection which offers a synthesis of the most recent scholarship. This book relates the workings of seigneurial systems in different areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from Castile to Pontus. In this way, the perspective remains the same, institutional and material. This book emphasises both the institutional and informal forms of lordship identified and crystallised by social and political actors (for example, communities, sovereigns, nobles, bishops, and abbots). It offers a general framework for those approaching the subject for the first time and a useful in-depth tool with numerous regional cases for long-term scholars.

Author : Francis Marion Crawford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A History of Southern Italy written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Matteson Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Napoleonic Empire in Southern Italy and the Rise of the Secret Societies written by Robert Matteson Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199247048
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book Italy in the Central Middle Ages written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series: Short Oxford History of Italy

Author : Jean Dunbabin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500082
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305 written by Jean Dunbabin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles of Anjou's conquest of the Sicilian Regno in 1266 transformed relations between France and the kingdom of Sicily. This original study of contact and exchange in the Middle Ages explores the significance of the many cultural, religious and political exchanges between the two countries, arguing that the links were more diverse and stronger than simply the rulers' family connections. Jean Dunbabin shows how influence flowed as much from south to north as vice versa, and that France was strongly influenced by the experiences of those who returned after years of fighting in the Regno. As well as considering the experiences of notable crusading families, she sheds new light on the career of Robert II d'Artois, who virtually ruled the Regno for six years before returning to France to remodel the government of Artois. This comparative history of two societies offers an important perspective on medieval Western Europe.