A Companion to Medieval Palermo: The History of a Mediterranean City from 600 to 1500 (Brill's Companions to European History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004223924 ISBN 13: 9789004223929

Publisher: Brill, 2013

Synopsis

The Companion to Medieval Palermo offers a panorama of the history of Medieval Palermo from the sixth to the fifteenth century. Often described by contrast with the communal reality of Medieval Italy as submitted to a royal (external) authority, the city is here given back its density and creativity.
Important themes such as artistic and literary productions, religious changes or political autonomy are thus explored anew. Some fields recently investigated are the object of particular scrutiny: the history of the Jews, Byzantine or Islamic Palermo are among them.
Contributors are Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent, Alessandra Bagnera, Mirella Cassarino, Rosi Di Liberto, Elena Pezzini, Henri Bresc, Igor Mineo, Laura Sciascia, Gian Luca Borghese, Sulamith Brodbeck, Benoît Grévin, Giuseppe Mandalà, and Fabrizio Titone.

About this title

Review:

"This collection of essays by historians, philologists and, to a lesser extent, archaeologists and architects allows us to retrace and decipher this complexity [of Palermo] through the periods of Byzantine, Islamic, Norman, Suebian, Angevin and Aragonese domination and makes the most recent thinking and interpretations of the history of this Mediterranean city accessible in English. Alongside relatively well known aspects of the historiography of Palermo... the editor has endeavoured to give prominent to the city's cultural and religious history for which there are no recent syntheses."
Alessandra Molinari, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Medieval Archeology, Vol. 59 (2015)

About the Author:

Annliese Nef is Maître de Conférences at the University Paris 1-Panthéon and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has published on Norman Sicily (Conquérir et gouverner la Sicile islamique aux XIe et XIIe siècles, BEFAR, 2011) and works currently on Islamic Sicily.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9004223924
• ISBN 13: 9789004223929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560