Paul Oldfield

City and Community in Norman Italy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study of urban society in twelfth-century Norman Italy challenges traditional views that the Normans stifled urban development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403079
• ISBN-10: 1107403073
• Artikelnr.: 33624037

Autorenporträt

Paul Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Urban Government and Communal Independence: 1. Before 1085: the arrival of the Normans
2. The fragmentation of power (1085-1127)
3. Civil war and unification (1127-39)
4. The Norman kingdom of Sicily (1139-89)
5. From the Normans to the Staufen (1189-1220)
Part II. Urban Society: Community, Identity and Wealth: 6. Populations, cultural identity and citizenship
7. The community
8. The Church, bishop and civic identity
9. The urban economy
Conclusion
Appendix
Map of southern Italy
Bibliography.