Rethinking Norman Italy

1 Introduction: rethinking Norman Italy - Joanna H. Drell

Part I: Historiographies

2 Norman Italy and Sicily through the eyes of British historians, 1912-76 - David Abulafia

3 The Norman Empire between the eleventh and twelfth centuries with special reference to the Normans in southern Italy - Luigi Russo

4 Historiography in the making: a name-list of Sicilian Muslims from the Rollus Rubeus cartulary of Cefalù cathedral - Alex Metcalfe

5 A fiscal provision of Count Roger of Ariano: traces of redactional variants in the Chronicon of Falco of Benevento - Edoardo D'Angelo

Part II: Identities and communities

6 Crucible of faith: fitna in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr - Joshua C. Birk

7 Bellum civile: urban strife and conflict management in early twelfth-century Benevento - Markus Krumm

8 Norman rulers and Greek-speaking subjects: the Vitae of Italo-Greek saints (twelfth and thirteenth centuries) and the negotiation of local identities - Eleni Tounta

9 Griffones and the city of Messina: urban encounters with crusading - Paul Oldfield

Part III: Religion and the Church

10 The foundation of St Euphemia in Calabria: a 'Norman' church in southern Italy? - Benjamin Pohl

11 King Roger II's legislation on the celebration of marriage - Elisabeth van Houts

12 The battle against simony in Norman Italy: perceptions, interpretations, measures and consequences - Lioba Geis

13 Some reflections on the women's monasteries of southern Italy in the eighth to twelfth centuries - Jean-Marie Martin

Part IV: Conquering Norman Italy and beyond

14 The Norman siege of Bari, 1068-71 - Charles D. Stanton

15 The past, present and future of Norman rule in Apulia: Roger II's silver ducalis - Sarah Davis-Secord

16 From Alexandria to Tinnis: the kingdom of Sicily, Egypt and the Holy Land, 1154-87 - Alan V. Murray

Index