Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth CenturiesHistories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix. |
Contents
The Beginnings | 1 |
Southern Italy in the Early Ninth Century | 9 |
The First Arab Impact | 18 |
A Carolingian Crusade | 36 |
Firming the Elements | 55 |
Amalfi in Context | 75 |
24 | 80 |
Trading with the Arab World | 84 |
The Structures of Amalfitan Trade | 90 |
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Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries Barbara M. Kreutz Limited preview - 2011 |
Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries Barbara M. Kreutz No preview available - 1991 |
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Page 219 - A. PERTUSI, Bisanzio e l'irradiazione della sua civiltà in Occidente nell'Alto Medioevo, in Centri e vie di irradiazione della civiltà nell'Alto Medioevo, Settimane di Studio del Centro italiano di studi sull'Alto Medioevo, XI, Spoleto 1964, pp.