Hiroshi Takayama

Gebundenes Buch

Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Beschreibung

This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, one of the most fascinating but neglected kingdoms in the medieval world.

Autor

Hiroshi Takayama, professor of history at the University of Tokyo, received his Ph.D. from Yale University with the R. Lopez Memorial Prize in 1990. While comparing medieval polities in Europe, he has been studying cross-cultural contacts in the Mediterranean area, focusing on medieval Sicily, a crossroads of Latin, Greek, and Islamic cultures. He has sole-authored ten books, co-edited eight books, and published about forty articles. He has received the Suntory Award, Collegium Mediterranistarum Award, Premio Marco Polo, and Medal with Purple Ribbon. He has served as an editorial board member of scholarly journals and book series in the UK, US, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan. He is President of the Historical Society of Japan (2016-) and President of the Japan Society for Medieval European Studies (2015-).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9781138496194
• ISBN-10: 1138496197
• Artikelnr.: 56358971