Islamic and Norman Sicily

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. 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 and loss of Africa

36. William I and the crises of 1155–6

37. The History of Hugo Falcandus

38. The revolts of 1161–2

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. The Monreale census lists of lands and men

45. Ibn Jubayr in Sicily

46. Abū l-Qāsim and the Muslims

47. The reign of Tancred

48. Markward and the 'amirate in the mountains'

49. The Norman legacy

50. Frederick II and the Staufen dynasty

51. The Sicilian Vespers

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Home The Central Mediterranean (535–827) Islamic Sicily & South Italy (827–1061) The Early Normans (1000–1130) Kingdom of Sicily (1130–1250) Links and Resources Images Discussion Board & Recent Publications	General bibliography This bibliography is aimed at undergraduate-level students wishing to access a range of articles and monograph studies in English which are readily found in university libraries or online. It is by no means intended to be exhaustive and has not benefitted by the inclusion of the considerable body of scholarly works available in French, Italian and German. For references to primary sources, see Links and Resources. Abulafia, D. (1977) The Two Italies: economic relations between the Norman kingdom of Sicily and the northern communities, Cambridge. Abulafia, D. (1978) 'Pisan Commercial Colonies and Consulates in Twelfth-century Sicily' English Historical Review, 1978: 68-81 Abulafia, D. (1986) 'The merchants of Messina: Levant trade and domestic economy' Papers of the British School at Rome, liv: 196-212. Abulafia, D. Crown and economy article Abulafia, D. (1987) Sicily, Italy and the Mediterranean 1100-1400, Variorum reprints, London Abulafia, D. (1988 revised & re-printed 2002), Frederick II: a medieval Emperor, Oxford. Abulafia, D. (2004) ‘The Italian other: Greek, Muslims and Jews' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Abulafia, D. ed. (1995ff) The New Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge Abulafia, D. ed. (2004) Italy in the Central Middle Ages , Oxford. Agius, D. (1996) Siculo Arabic, London & New York. Ahmad, A. (1975) A History of Islamic Sicily, Edinburgh. Ayalon, D. (1999) Eunuchs, Caliphs and Sultans, a study in power relationships, Jerusalem. Berschin, W. (1988) Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages, trans. J. C. Frakes, Washington DC. Borsook, E. (1990) Messages in Mosaic, the royal programmes of Norman Sicily, 1130-87, Oxford. Brett, M. (1995) ‘Muslim justice under infidel rule', in Cahiers de Tunisie, xxxxiii, 155-6 : 325 -68. Brook, C. ed. (1977) The Normans in Sicily and Southern Italy, Oxford. Bulliet, R. (1979) Conversion to Islam in the Medieval period, an essay in quantitative history, Cambridge, Mass. Capitani, O. (1977) 'Specific motivations and continuing themes in the Norman Chronicles of Southern Italy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries' in C. Brook (1977). Chalandon, F. (1925) 'Norman Kingdom of Sicily' in Cambridge Medieval History v: Contest of Empire and Papacy, Cambridge: 184-207. Chalandon, F. (1925) 'The Conquest of South Italy and Sicily by the Normans' in Cambridge Medieval History V: Contest of Empire and Papacy, Cambridge: 167-184. Charanis, G. (1946) 'On the question of the Hellenization of Sicily and Southern Italy during the Middle Ages' American Historical Review, LII, 1946. Citarella, A. O. (1967) 'The relations of Amalfi with the Arab world before the Crusades' Speculum, XLII , 1967: 299-312. Cowdrey, H. E. J. (1977) 'The Mahdia campaign of 1087' English Historical Review, 92: 1-29. Douglas, D. C. (1976) The Norman Fate, 1100-1154, London . Encyclopaedia of Islam Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd and 3rd editions): (Regions) Italiya, Sikilliya, Sardāniya, Killawriya, Tunisia, Ifrīqiya, Djarba, Malta, Balarm, Siraḳkūsa Kasryānnih, Tunis, Kayrawān, Mahdiyya (Dynasties and tribes): Aghlabids, Fatimids, Kalbids, Zirids, Hawwāra. (People): Ibn Hamdīs, Ibn ḤHawkḳal, Ibn Makkī, Ibn Kalākis, Ibn al-Hawwās, Ibn Zafar, Ibn Djubayr, Idrīsī, Djawdhar. (Tax & admin): kharādj, 'ushr, djizya, kanūn, dīwān. (Other): dhimma, tarī, ribāt kasab al-sukkar, shadirwān, Masālik wa-l-mamālik, adjā'ib, hajj, rihla, Sakāliba, Mālikīya, takḳiya, Kalīla wa-Dimna, kharīta, djūgrāfiya. Enzensberger, H. (2002) ‘Chanceries, charters and administration in Norman Italy' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden, 2002. Epstein, S. (2004) ‘The family' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Falkenhausen, V. von (2002) ‘The Greek presence in Norman Sicily: the contribution of archival material' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden, 2002. Finley, M. I. (1979) Ancient Sicily, London. Galasso, G. (1977) 'Social and political developments in the eleventh and twelfth centuries' in C. Brook (1977): 47-63. Goitein, S. D. (1967-80) A Mediterranean Society. The Jewish Communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza, vols I-VI, Berkeley, Los Angeles & London. Haskins, C. H. (1911) ‘England and Sicily in the twelfth century' English Historical Review, 103 pp. 433-447, 641-665. Haskins, C. H. (1927) The Renaissance of the twelfth century, Cambridge, Mass. Herde, P. (2002) ‘The papacy and the Greek church in southern Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth century' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden. Houben, H. (2002a) ‘Religious toleration in the south Italian peninsula during the Norman and Staufen periods' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden. Houben, H. (2002b) Roger II of Sicily: a ruler between East and West, Cambridge. Hussey, J. (1970) The Byzantine World, Hussey, J. (1986) The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Oxford. Jamison, E. (1939) 'The Sicilian Norman Kingdom in the mind of Anglo-Norman contemporaries' Proceedings of the British Academy , XXIV, 1939: 237-285. Jamison, E. (1957) Admiral Eugenius of Sicily. His life and work and the authorship of the ‘Epistola ad Petrum' and ‘Historia Hugonis Falcandi Siculi', London . Johns J. & Metcalfe, A. J. (1999) ‘The mystery of Chúrchuro: conspiracy or incompetence in twelfth-century Sicily' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 62 pp.226-59. Johns, J. (1987) ‘ Malik Ifrīqiya: the Norman kingdom of Africa and the Fatimids' Libyan Studies 18: 89-101. Johns, J. (1995) 'The Greek church and the conversion of Muslims in Norman Sicily' Byzantinische Forschungen, xxi: 133-57. Johns, J. (2002) Arabic Administration in Norman Sicily. The Royal Dīwān . Cambridge. Kamp, N. (2002) ‘The bishops of southern Italy in the Norman and Staufen periods' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe [Leiden: Brill]. Kedar, B. Z. (1984) Crusade and Mission, Princeton. Kennedy, H. (???) ‘The Muslims in Europe', The New Cambridge Medieval History, c.700-c.900, vol 2, ed. R. McKitterick, pp. 249-79. Kennedy, H. (???) ‘Sicily and al-Andalus under Muslim rule', The New Cambridge Medieval History, c.900-1024, vol 3, ed. T. Reuter, pp. 646-69. Kitzinger, E. (1960) The Mosaics of Monreale, Palermo. Kitzinger, E. (1990) The Mosaics of St Mary's of the Admiral in Palermo, Dumbarton Oaks Studies no.27, Washington. Kreutz, B. (1991) Before the Normans. Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, Philadelphia. Krönig, W. (1965) The Cathedral of Monreale and Norman Architecture in Italy, Palermo. Loewenthal, L. J. A. (1972) 'For a biography of Walter Offamil, archbishop of Palermo' English Historical Review 87: 75-82. Loud, G. A (1999) ‘Southern Italy in the tenth century' in New Cambridge Medieval History c. 900-1024, vol 3, ed. T. Reuter, pp. 624-45. Loud, G. A. & Metcalfe, A. J. eds. (2002) The Society of Norman Italy, Leiden. Loud, G. A. & Wiedemann, T. E. J. (1998) The History of the Tyrants of Sicily by ‘Hugo Falcandus' 1154-69, Manchester. Loud, G. A. (1999) 'Coinage, wealth and plunder in the age of Robert Guiscard' English Historical Review, cxiv: 819-43. Loud, G. A. (1999) Conquerors and churchmen in Norman Italy, Aldershot. Loud, G. A. (2000) The Age of Robert Guiscard. Southern Italy and the Norman Conquest, Harlow. Loud, G. A. (2002) ‘The papacy and the rulers of southern Italy' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden, 2002. Luttrell, A. (1975) Medieval Malta, London. Luttrell, A. (2002) The Making of Medieval Malta, Aldershot. Mack Smith, D. (1968) A History of Sicily: Medieval Sicily 800-1713, London. Marongiu, A. (1963) ‘A model state in the Middle Ages: the Norman Swabian Kingdom of Sicily' in Comparative Studies in Society and History, VI: 307-20. Marongiu, A. (1972) Byzantine, Norman, Swabian and Later Institutions in Southern Italy, London. Martin, J-M. (2002) ‘Settlement and the agrarian economy' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden, 2002. Matthew, D. (1992) The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Cambridge. Metcalfe, A. J. (2002) ‘The Muslims of Sicily under Christian rule' in The Society of Norman Italy, eds. G. A. Loud & A. Metcalfe, Leiden, 2002. Metcalfe, A. J. (2003) Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily, London & New York. Metcalfe, A. J. (2009) The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh. Museum with No Frontiers (no author) (2004) Siculo-Norman Art: Islamic culture in Medieval Sicily, Vienna. Norwich, J. J. (1992) The Normans in Sicily (omnibus edition of The Normans in the South 1016-1130 and The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194 ), London. Osheim, D. (2004) ‘Rural Italy' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Parker, J. (1956) 'The attempted Byzantine alliance with the Sicilian Norman Kingdom 1166-67' Papers of the British School of Rome, XXIV: 86-93. Pellitteri, A. (1994) 'The Historical-ideological framework of Islamic Fātimid Sicily with reference to the works of the qḍadi al-Nuʿmān' al-Masāq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean vii: 111-163. Powell, J. M. ed. (1990) Muslims under Latin rule 1100-1300, Princeton. Runciman, S. (1955) The Eastern Schism. A study of the papacy and the Eastern churches during the Xth and XIth centuries, Oxford. Runciman, S. (1960) The Sicilian Vespers , Baltimore. Sanders, P. (1994) Ritual, politics, and the city in Fatimid Cairo, State University of New York in Medieval Middle East History, Albany, New York. Shepard, J. (1993) 'The uses of the Franks in eleventh-century Byzantium' Anglo-Norman Studies xv, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1992: 275-305. Skinner, P. (1995) 'Politics and piracy: the Duchy of Gaeta in the twelfth-century,' Journal of Medieval History, xxi: 307-19. Skinner, P. (2000) Women in Medieval Italian Society 500-1200, Harlow. Skinner, P. (2004) ‘Material life' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Starr, J. (1946) 'The mass conversion of Jews in southern Italy (1290-1293)' Speculum , xxi:201-11. Takayama, H. (1993) The Administration of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Leiden. Takayama, H. (2004) ‘Law and monarchy in the south' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Talbi, M. (1981) 'Law and economy in Ifrīqiya (Tunisia) in the Third Islamic century: agriculture and the role of slaves in the country's economy' in A. L. Udovitch (ed.) The Islamic Middle East 700-1900: Studies on Economic and Social History, Princeton. Tangheroni, M. (2004) ‘Sardinia and Italy' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Taylor, J. (2003) Muslims in Medieval Italy: the colony at Lucera, Lanham. Tronzo, W. (1997) The Cultures of his Kingdom; Roger II and the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Princeton. Udovitch, A. L. ed. (1981) The Islamic Middle East 700-1900: Studies on Economic and Social History, Princeton. Varvaro, A. (2004) ‘Language and culture' in Italy in the Central Middle Ages , ed. D. Abulafia, Oxford, 2004. Watt, W. M. (1972, reprinted 1994) The Influence of Islam on medieval Europe, Edinburgh. Weiss, R. (1951) 'The Greek culture of southern Italy in the later Middle Ages' Proceedings of the British Academy, xxxvii:23-50. Wheatley, P. (2001) The places where men pray together , Chicago. White, L. T. (1938) Latin monasticism in Norman Sicily, Cambridge, Mass. Wickam, C. (1981) Early Medieval Italy, Central Power and Local Society 400-1100, London. Wieruszowski, H. (1963) ‘Roger II of Sicily, Rex Tyrannus in twelfth-century political thought' in Speculum, vol . 38, pp.46-78. Wieruszowski, H. (1971) Politics and Culture in Medieval Spain and Italy, Rome. Wilson, R. (1990) Sicily under the Roman Empire, Warminster. Wolf, K (1995) Making History. The Normans and their historians in eleventh-century, Philadelphia.	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. 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 and loss of Africa 36. William I and the crises of 1155–6 37. The History of Hugo Falcandus 38. The revolts of 1161–2 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. The Monreale census lists of lands and men 45. Ibn Jubayr in Sicily 46. Abū l-Qāsim and the Muslims 47. The reign of Tancred 48. Markward and the 'amirate in the mountains' 49. The Norman legacy 50. Frederick II and the Staufen dynasty 51. The Sicilian Vespers
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Islamic and Norman Sicily (800–1200)

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