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21. Ecclesiastical lordshipsWhat did Urban II's concession of the Apostolic legateship to the Normans allow them to achieve? Under what circumstances had this been made, and what was controversial about this in the wider context of eleventh-century politico-religious debate? Why did the early Normans also patronise Greek-rite foundations? How did the consequent revival of Greek monasticism and learning affect south Italy and Sicily? Was there any pattern to the Norman rulers' support of the Latin church between 1090 and 1154? How did this compare with their patronage on the mainland? Where did the first generation of new bishops and archbishops of the Latin-rite come from? What roles did the Church play in the territorial (re-)organisation of lands, men and the rural economy? To what extent were newly founded or restored Latin-rite bishoprics on the island superimposed on top of the main religious centres of Byzantine Sicily?
Further readingL. T. White, Latin Monasticism in Norman Sicily (Cambridge MA, 1938). L.-R. Ménager 'La Byzantinisation religieuse de l'Italie méridionale', Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 103, (1958), 747–74; 104 (1959) 5–40, reprinted in , Hommes et Institutions de l'Italie Normande. D. R. Clementi 'The relations between the Papacy, the Western Roman Empire and the emergent kingdom of Sicily and southern Italy (1050–1156)', Bullettino dell'Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 80 (1968), 191–212. A. Guillou 'L'organization ecclésiastique de l'Italie byzantine autour de 1050 de la metropole aux églises privées', Le Istitutuzioni ecclesiastiche della “societas christiana” dei secoli XI-XII (Miscellanea del centro di studi medievali, VIII, Milano 1977), 309–22. H. E. J. Cowdrey 'Pope Gregory VII's 'Crusading' plans of 1074', in Outremer: studies in the history of the crusading kingdom of Jerusalem presented to Joshua Prawer, eds. B. Z. Kedar, H. E. Mayer and R. C. Smail (1982), 237–40. H. E. J. Cowdrey, The Age of Abbot Desiderius: Montecassino, the Papacy, and the Normans in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries (Oxford, 1983). For the mainland, see also several reprinted articles in G. A. Loud, Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy (Aldershot, 1999) including: 'Churches and church men in an age of conquest: southern Italy, 1030-1130'; 'Royal control of the Church in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily' and 'The Abbey of Cava, its property and benefactors in the Norman era'. G. A. Loud, 'The Papacy and the Rulers of Southern Italy, 1038–1198' in The Society of Norman Italy, ed. G. A. Loud and A. Metcalfe (Leiden, 2002), 151–84. P. Herde ‘The papacy and the Greek Church in southern Italy between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries', in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud and A. Metcalfe (2002), 213–51. Vera von Falkenhausen, 'The Greek Presence in Norman Sicily: The Contribution of Archival Material in Greek' in The Society of Norman Italy, ed. G. A. Loud and A. Metcalfe (Leiden, 2002), 253–88. G. A. Loud, The Latin Church in Norman Italy (Cambridge, 2007). |
List of topic areas1. Early history of the central Mediterranean 2. Sources for medieval Mediterranean history 3. Introduction to Mediterranean historiography 4. Geography of Sicily and the central Mediterranean 5. Arab-Muslim North Africa (647–827) 6. Late Byzantine Sicily and the Muslim conquest 7. Christians under Muslim rule 8. The Amirate of Bari 9. Law and learning in Muslim Sicily 10. Rebellions in the Fatimid period 11. Taxation, land tenure, the army and administration 12. Ibn Hawqal In Sicily 13. The Muslim Civil War (c.1030–60) 14. South Italy before the Normans 15. Al-Mujāhid's attack on Sardinia 16. The rise of the Normans in south Italy 17. The Hilalian ‘invasion' of Zirid Ifrīqiya 18. The Norman conquest of Sicily (1061–72) 19. The Norman conquest of Sicily and Malta (1072–91) 20. Muslim responses to the Norman conquest 21. Ecclesiastical lordships 22. The rise of new administrators 23. The early Norman administration of lands and men in Sicily 24. Rebellious lords and the incastellamento question 25. The regency of Adelaide 26. Christodoulos and George of Antioch 27. Roger II as Count of Sicily 28. Sicily and the Mediterranean (1118–28) 29. Formation of the new kingdom 30. Consolidation and development of the kingdom 31. Law, authority and kingship 32. Art and architecture of the royal palaces 33. The royal fiscal administration of lands and men 34. The trial of Philip of Mahdiyya 35. The Norman conquest of Africa 36. William I and Maio of Bari 37. The History of Hugo Falcandus 38. The Muslims and the ‘Lombards' 39. Stephen of Perche and the French contingents 40. Science, translation and patronage 41. The familiares regis 42. External relations and overseas diplomacy 43. The foundation of Monreale 44. Ibn Jubayr in Sicily 45. Abū l-Qāsim and the Muslims 46. The reign of Tancred 47. Markward and the 'amirate in the mountains' 48. The Norman legacy 49. Frederick II and the Staufen dynasty 50. The Sicilian Vespers |
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