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	How to contribute to the Discussion Board We welcome all scholarly contributions to this site including publications, images, charter transcriptions, translations, notifications of recent publications, calls for papers, forthcoming conferences, shorter notices or research questions and answers. All submissions may be anonymised at the request of the sender. Please email your submissions to us at medievalsicily@gmail.com Recent publications (post-2008) Giuseppe Mandalà , 'Il falconiere di Ögödey, i giardini del Minse e le colombe di Federico II. Frammenti di storia aviaria siciliana', in Memoria, storia e identità. Scritti per Laura Sciascia, M. Pacifico, M. A. Russo, D. Santoro, P. Sardina (eds.) vols I–II, Quaderni di Mediterranea 17 (Palermo 2011), I: 437–57. Giuseppe Mandalà, 'Un codice arabo in caratteri ebraici dalla Trapani degli Abbate (Vat. ebr. 358)', Sefarad 71/1 (2011), 7–24. Charles D. Stanton, Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean (Woodbridge, 2011). Beat Brent et al. (eds.) La Cappella Palatina a Palermo, Mirabilia Italiae, 4 vols (Modena, 2010). Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (eds.) La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam (Paris, 2010). Lucia Arcifa, 'Nuove ipotesi a partire dalla rilettura dei dati archeologici: la Sicilia orientale' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 15–49. Fabiola Ardizzone, 'Nuove ipotesi a partire dalla rilettura dei dati archeologici: la Sicilia occidentale' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 50–76. Daniele Castrizio, 'La circolazione monetale nella Sicilia romea' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 77–94. Jean-Charles Coulon, 'Les objects magiques: un indice d'evolution culturelle? Les documents magique siciliens entre Byzance et l'Islam' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 95–112. Maria Amalia De Luca, 'Un contributo al dibattito sull'introduzione del quarto di dinar e sulla sua possibile derivazione da modelli bizantini' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 113–30. Annliese Nef, 'La fiscalité en Sicile sous la domination islamique' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 131–56. Vivien Prigent, 'La Sicile de Constant II: l'apport des sources sigillographiques' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 157–188. Mario Re, 'La Vita di s. Zosimo vescovo di Siracusa come fonte per la storia della Sicilia del VII secolo' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam , eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 189–204. Cristina Rognoni, 'Au pied de la letter? Réflexions à propos du témoignage de Théodose, moine et grammatikos, sur la prise de Syracuse en 878' in La Sicile de Byzance à L'Islam, eds. Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent (Paris, 2010), 205–28. Benoît Grévin (ed.) Maghreb–Italie des passeurs médiévaux à l'orientalisme moderne (XIIIe –milieu XXe siècle), (Rome, 2010). Giuseppe Mandalà, 'La migration des juifs du Garbum en Sicile (1239)' in Maghreb–Italie des passeurs médiévaux à l'orientalisme moderne (XIIIe –milieu XXe siècle), ed. Benoît Grévin (Rome, 2010), 19–48. Giuseppe Mandalà, 'La descrizione della città di Roma nelle opere di tre storici arabo-islamici del Medioevo - Le forme e la storia. Rivista del Dipartimento di Filologia moderna, Università degli Studi di Catania' 3/1 (2010), 45–60. Giuseppe Mandalà, 'Tra mito e realtà: l'immagine di Roma nella letteratura araba e turca d'età ottomana' in Italien und das osmanische Reich im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert, F Meier (ed.), Göttingen, Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2010 (Studia Turcica, 2), 29–56. Henri Bresc, 'De l'abbé Vella à l'histoire romantique: Sicile de synthèse et Islam imaginaire' in Maghreb–Italie des passeurs médiévaux à l'orientalisme moderne (XIIIe–milieu XXe siècle), ed. Benoît Grévin (Rome, 2010), 235–63. Annliese Nef, 'Michele Amari ou l'histoire inventée de la Sicile islamique: réflexions sur la Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia' in Maghreb–Italie des passeurs médiévaux à l'orientalisme moderne (XIIIe–milieu XXe siècle ), ed. Benoît Grévin (Rome, 2010), 285–306. Sarah C. Davis-Secord, 'Medieval Italy and Southern Italy in Recent Historiographical Perspective', History Compass 8/1 (2010), 61–87. Click to access journal homepage. Alex Metcalfe, The Muslims of Medieval Italy (Edinburgh, 2009). Mario Re and Cristina Rognoni (eds), Byzantino-Sicula V: Giorgio di Antiochia. L'arte della politica in Sicilia nel XII secolo tra Bisanzio e l'Islam. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Palermo, 19–20 Aprile 2007), Istituto Siciliano di Studi bizantini e neoellenici ‘Bruno Lavagnini'. Quaderni 17, (Palermo 2009). Giuseppe Mandalà and Marcello Moscone , 'Tra latini, greci e arabici: ricerche su scrittura e cultura a Palermo fra XII e XIII secolo.' Segno e testo. International Journal on Manuscripts and Text Transmission 7 (2009), 143–238. Annick Peters-Custot, Les Grecs de l'Italie méridionale post-byzantine. Une acculturation en douceur, IXe–XIVe siècles (Rome, 2009). Vivien Prigent, 'La Sicile Byzantine, entre papes et empereurs (6ème–8ème siècle)' in Zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit: Herrschaft auf Sizilien von der Antike bis zur Frühen Neuzeit, eds. D. Engels, L. Geis and M. Kleu (Stuttgart, 2009). Annick Peters-Custot, 'L'Identité d'une communauté minoritaire au Moyen Âge: la population grecque de la principauté lombarde de Salerne (IXe–XIIe siècles)' in Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Moyen Âge, 121/1 (2009), 83–97. P. Chastang, L. Feller and J.–M. Martin, 'Autour de l'édition du Registrum Petri Diaconi. Problèmes de documentation cassinésienne: chartres, rouleaux, registres' in Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Moyen Âge, 121/1 (2009), 99–135. Giuseppe Mandalà, 'Roma e il labirinto nella tradizione arabo-islamica' in Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Moyen Âge, 121/1 (2009), 219–38. Paul Oldfield, City and Community in Norman Italy (Cambridge, 2009). Click to access purchase page. Graham A. Loud, 'The Chancery and Charters of the Kings of Sicily (1130–1212)', English Historical Review 124 (2009), 779–810. Click to access EHR site. J.-A. Vickers, 'Monastic Forgery in Southern Italy during the Central Middle Ages (c. 900–1150)'. University of Cambridge, Ph.D. thesis, 2009. Charles Dalli, 'Bridging Europe and Africa: Norman Sicily's Other Kingdom'. Click to access online .pdfversion. Federico Martino and Adalgisa De Simone, 'Un documento in arabo e il diritto commune alla corte di Ruggero II', Rivista internazionale di diritto comune 19 (2008), 93–136. Julia Becker, 'Un dominio tra tre culture. La contea di Ruggero I alla fine dell'XI secolo', Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 88 (2008), 1–33. Click for extensive preview from Google Books. Michele Fasolo, Alla ricerca di Focerò (Rome, 2008). Click for extensive preview from Google Books. Giuseppe Mandalà, 'La sottoscrizione araba di 'Abd al-Masih (Palermo, 15 ottobre, 1201)', Quaderni di studi arabi, nuova serie 3 (2008), 153–64. Click to access. Giuseppe Mandalà, 'Ahituv ben Yishaq da Palermo: medico, filosofo e traddutore del XIII secolo', Materia giudaica. Rivista dell'associazione italiana per lo studio del giudaismo 13/1–2 (2008), 35–61. E. Cuozzo, V. Déroche, A. Peters-Custot and V. Prigent (eds.), Puer Apuliae. Mélanges offerts à Jean-Marie Martin, 2 vols, (Paris, 2008). Click for table of contents. Julia Becker, Graf Roger I. von Sizilien: Wegbereiter des normannischen Königreichs (Tübingen, 2008).	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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