The Age of Robert Guiscard
Title | The Age of Robert Guiscard PDF eBook |
Author | G. A. Loud |
Publisher | Addison-Wesley Longman |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780582045293 |
The Norman expansion across Europe in the 11th century was a movement of enormous historical importance. This text places the careers of Robert Guiscard and the Hauteville family against the wider context of this expansion.
The Age of Robert Guiscard
Title | The Age of Robert Guiscard PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Loud |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2014-07-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317900227 |
Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians.
The Transformation of a Religious Landscape
Title | The Transformation of a Religious Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Ramseyer |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2006-06-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801444036 |
Ramseyer traces the efforts by the archbishop of Salerno and the abbey of Cava to centralize ecclesiastical structures and standardize religious practices in medieval southern Italy.
The Age of Robert Guiscard
Title | The Age of Robert Guiscard PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Loud |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2016-04-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781138139688 |
Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians.
Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Title | Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Hunt Janin |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2013-07-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 078647274X |
In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, the book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers.
Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1240-1254)
Title | Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1240-1254) PDF eBook |
Author | Adam M. Bishop |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2024-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1040028675 |
Robert of Nantes was Latin patriarch of Jerusalem from 1240 to 1254, and, according to Bernard Hamilton, was “the most important single person” in the Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem after the Battle of Forbie in 1244. Despite this importance, he was a rather obscure figure: almost nothing is known about him before he became bishop of Nantes in 1236. How did he rise to such a prominent position in Jerusalem? Robert of Nantes, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1240–1254) follows Robert from his probable origins in Aquitaine, to Italy where he might have been the unnamed bishop of Aquino. He was briefly transferred to Nantes in the duchy of Brittany, but soon returned to Rome, where he was appointed patriarch of Jerusalem in 1240. As patriarch, he was present for the fall of Jerusalem to the Khwarizmian Turks, the Frankish defeat at Forbie, and the subsequent crusade of Louis IX of France. This is the first book-length biography of any of the Latin patriarchs of Jerusalem. It will be of interest not only to historians of the crusades but also to historians of Italy, Sicily, the Papal States, the Holy Roman Empire, Aquitaine and Brittany. It will hopefully inspire further research on other ecclesiastical and secular leaders of Jerusalem and Cyprus, who may not be traditionally considered “rulers”, but who nevertheless helped govern the Frankish kingdoms.
Rethinking Norman Italy
Title | Rethinking Norman Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna H. Drell |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526138557 |
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours and reflects the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses and recasts the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been conventionally understood, addressing varied subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identities and communities, religion and Church, and conquest. The chapters revise and refine our understanding of Norman Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, demonstrating that it was not just a parochial Norman or Mediterranean entity but also an integral player in the medieval mainstream.