The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Normans in Sicily: The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 and the Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 Book

In 1016, a rebel Lombard lord appealed to a group of pilgrims for help-and unwittingly set in motion "the other Norman Conquest." The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville: of Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between Caesar and Napoleon; his brother Roger, who helped him win Sicily from the Saracens; and his nephew Roger II, crowned at Palermo in 1130. The Kingdom in the Sun vividly evokes this "sad, superb, half-forgotten kingdom, cultivated, cosmopolitan, and tolerant," which lasted a mere 64 years. It concludes with the poignant defeat of the bastard King Tancred in 1194, bringing to a close this extraordinary chapter in Italian history. With a comprehensive listing of all of Sicily's surviving Norman monuments, the result is a superb traveler's companion and a masterpiece of the historian's art.Read More

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  • 0140152121
  • 9780140152128
  • John Julius Norwich
  • 24 September 1992
  • Penguin Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 816
  • New edition
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