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Islamic and Norman Sicily (800–1200)

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The following selection of articles are not open access and require a login to JSTOR. Although some articles are now dated, many have become seminal and contain important arguments.

David Abulafia, Pisan Commercial Colonies and Consulates in Twelfth-Century Sicily', English Historical Review 93 (1978), 68–81.

David Abulafia, The Crown and the Economy under Roger II and His Successors', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 37 (1983), 1–14.

Michael Brett, Ifriqiya as a Market for Saharan Trade from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century A.D.', Journal of African History 10/3 (1969), 347–64.

Michael Brett, The Way of the Peasant', BSOAS 47/1 (1984), 44–56.

Peter Charanis, ‘On the Question of the Hellenization of Sicily and Southern Italy During the Middle Ages', American Historical Review 52 (1946), 74–86.

Armand O. Citarella, The Relations of Amalfi with the Arab World before the Crusades', Speculum 42/2 (1967), 299–312.

H. E. J. Cowdrey, The Mahdia Campaign of 1087', English Historical Review 92 (1977), 1–29

Slobodan Ćurčic, Some Palatine Aspects of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 41, Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (1987), 125–44.

Francesco Gabrieli, Greeks and Arabs in the Central Mediterranean Area', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 18 (1964), 57–65.

Francesco Gabrieli, Un secolo di studi arabo-siculi', Studia Islamica 2 (1954), 89–102.

Richard Gottheil, ‘Two Forged Antiques', Journal of the American Oriental Society 33 (1913), 306–12.

David Hiley, ‘The Chant of Norman Sicily Interaction between the Norman and Italian Traditions', Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 30/1 (1988), 379–91.

Charles H. Haskins, The De Arte Venandi cum Avibus of the Emperor Frederick II', English Historical Review 36 (1921), 334–55.

Charles H. Haskins and Dean Putnam Lockwood, ‘The Sicilian Translators of the Twelfth Century and the First Latin Version of Ptolemy's Almagest', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 21 (1910), 75–102.

Charles H. Haskins, Further Notes on Sicilian Translations of the Twelfth Century', Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 23 (1912), 155–66.

Charles H. Haskins, Science at the Court of the Emperor Frederick II', American Historical Review 27 (1922), 669–94.

Jeremy Johns and Alex Metcalfe, The Mystery at Chùrchuro: Conspiracy or Incompetence in Twelfth-Century Sicily?', BSOAS 62/2 (1999), 226–59.

Mark J. Johnson, The Episcopal and Royal Views at Cefalù', Gesta 33/2 (1994) 118–31.

Ernst Kitzinger, The Mosaics of Norman Sicily by Otto Demus (Review), Speculum 28/1 (1953), 143–50.

L. J. A. Loewenthal, For the Biography of Walter Ophamil, Archhishop of Palermo', English Historical Review 87 (1972), 75–82.

G. A. Loud, Coinage, Wealth and Plunder in the Age of Robert Guiscard', English Historical Review 114 (1999), 815–43.

Antonio Marongiu, A Model State in the Middle Ages: The Norman and Swabian Kingdom of Sicily', Comparative Studies in Society and History 6/3 (1964), 307–20.

Charles E. Nicklies, The Church of the Cuba near Castiglione di Sicilia and Its Cultural Context', Muqarnas 11 (1994), 12–30.

James M. Powell, Frederick II's Knowledge of Greek', Speculum 38 (1963), 481–82.

James M. Powell, Frederick II and the Church in the Kingdom of Sicily 1220–1224', Church History 30/1 (1961), 28–34.

Cecil Roth, Jewish Intellectual Life in Medieval Sicily', Jewish Quarterly Review 47 (1957), 317–35.

Hiroshi Takayama, ‘Familiares Regis and the Royal Inner Council in Twelfth-Century Sicily', English Historical Review 104 (1989), 357–72

Lucia Travaini, The Normans between Byzantium and the Islamic World', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55 (2001), 179–96.

John Wansbrough, Diplomatica Siciliana', BSOAS 47/1 (1984), 10–21.

John Wansbrough, A Judaeo-Arabic Document from Sicily', BSOAS 30/2 (1967), 305–33.

Lynn White, Jr., ‘The Byzantinization of Sicily', American Historical Review 42/1 (1936), 1–21.

Helene Wieruszowski, ‘Roger II of Sicily, Rex-Tyrannus, In Twelfth-Century Political Thought', Speculum 38/1 (1963), 46–78.

List of topic areas

1. 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. Roger II as Count of Sicily

27. Christodoulos and George of Antioch

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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