Contents

pp v-vi

List of figures

pp vii-viii

List of tables

pp ix-ix

List of contributors

pp x-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xv

List of abbreviations

pp xvi-xvii

Figure 0.1

pp xviii-xviii

1 - Introduction: Rethinking Norman Italy

pp 1-12

Part I: - Historiographies

pp 13-14

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

pp 15-28

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

pp 29-45

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

pp 46-92

5 - A fiscal provision of Count Roger of Ariano: Traces of redactional variants in the Chronicon of Falco of Benevento

pp 93-109

Part II: - Identities and communities

pp 110-112

6 - Crucible of faith: fitna in the Travels of Ibn Jubayr

pp 113-131

7 - Bellum civile: Urban strife and conflict management in early twelfth-century Benevento

pp 132-151

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

pp 152-170

9 - Griffones and the city of Messina: Urban encounters with crusading

pp 171-188

Part III: - Religion and the Church

pp 189-190

10 - The foundation of St Euphemia in Calabria: A ‘Norman’ church in southern Italy?

pp 191-211

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

pp 212-226

12 - The battle against simony in Norman Italy: Perceptions, interpretations, measures and consequences

pp 227-244

13 - Some reflections on the women’s monasteries of southern Italy in the eighth to twelfth centuries

pp 245-261

Part IV: - Conquering Norman Italy and beyond

pp 262-264

14 - The Norman siege of Bari, 1068–71

pp 265-283

15 - The past, present, and future of Norman rule in Apulia: Roger II’s silver ducalis

pp 284-304

16 - From Alexandria to Tinnīs: The kingdom of Sicily, Egypt and the Holy Land, 1154–87

pp 305-322

Bibliography

pp 323-356

Index

pp 357-369