Mapping Pre-Modern Sicily: Maritime Violence, Cultural Exchange, and Imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700

Author:   Emily Sohmer Tai ,  Kathryn L. Reyerson
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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Pages:   346
Publication Date:   09 September 2022
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Author:   Emily Sohmer Tai ,  Kathryn L. Reyerson
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.616kg
ISBN:  

9783031049149


ISBN 10:   3031049144
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   09 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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"Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Maritime Violence: Piracy and War: The Struggle for the Strait.- Chapter 3: The Sicilian Vespers: Roger de Lauria and the Ambiguities of Violence.- Chapter 4: The Art of Raiding: The Catalan-Aragonese 1292 Expedition into the Aegean Sea.- Chapter 5: Logistical Arrangements Between Sicily and Southern Italy during Alfonso V’s Conquest of Naples, 1435-1442.- Chapter 6: Travel and Trade: Violence and Exchange in Post-Norman Sicily.- Chapter 7: Grand Tour and Pilgrimage: Sicily in the Imagination of Ibn Jubayr.- Chapter 8: Four men in a boat. Trade practices between the French Midi and the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th and 13th centuries.- Chapter 9: Literary and Material Culture: Creating the ""Communitas Siciliae"" in the Post-Vespers Years.- Chapter 10: “The Luxuriant Southern Scene:” Textiles, Clothing and Memory in the Medieval Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily.- Chapter11: Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc.- Chapter 12: Digital Sicily: Digital Mapping Technology and the War of Sicilian Vespers: Using New Methods to Better Understand Old Problems.- Chapter 13: The Norman Sicily Project: A Digital Portal to Sicily's Norman Past. "

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Emily Sohmer Tai is Associate Professor of History at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USA.  Kathryn L. Reyerson is Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.   

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