Before the Normans. Barbara M. Kreutz
История. The Middle Ages Series
Before the Normans
Год выпуска 0
isbn 9780812205435
Автор произведения Barbara M. Kreutz
Жанр История
Серия The Middle Ages Series
Издательство Ingram
Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans , Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study in English of the land, political structures, and cultures of southern Italy in the two centuries before the Norman conquests. This was a pan-Meditteranean society, where the Roman past and Lombard-Germanic culture met Byzantine and Islamic civilization, creating a rich and unusual mix.