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Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean

The kingdom of Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress the balance by focusing on the Hautevilles, their successors and their followers. It considers the operational, tactical, technical and logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the South throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking also at its impact on Italian and Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges and diffusion between the "military cultures" of the Normans and the peoples they encountered in the South, and their varied policies of conquest, consolidation and expansion in the different operational theatres of land and sea. Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul. Contributors: Matthew Bennett, Daniel P. Franke, Michael S. Fulton, Serban V. Marin, David Nicolle, Francesca Petrizzo, Luigi Russo, Charles D. Stanton, Georgios Theotokis, James Titterton.

Decay and Afterlife
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Decay and Afterlife

Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, a...

The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 445

The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - were among the most influential and powerful groups in European society during the central Middle Ages. The secular clergy got their title from the Latin word for world, saeculum, and secular clerics kept the Church running in the world beyond the cloister wall, with responsibility for the bulk of pastoral care and ecclesiastical administration. This gave them enormous religious influence, although they were considered too worldly by many contemporary moralists - trying, for instance, to oppose the elimination of clerical marriage and concubinage. Although their worldliness created many tensions, it also gave the sec...

Power and Pleasure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Power and Pleasure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Although King John is remembered for his political and military failures, he also resided over a magnificent court. This book uses records of his reign to reconstruct his life at court, and explore how it produced both pleasure and soft power for the king.

Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This two-volume work, Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies sheds new light on an under-investigated phenomenon of European medieval intellectual history: the transmission of knowledge and texts from Latin into Hebrew between the twelfth and the fifteenth century. Because medieval Jewish philosophy and science in Christian Europe drew mostly on Hebrew translations from Arabic, the significance of the input from the Christian majority culture has been neglected. Latin-into-Hebrew: Texts and Studies redresses the balance. It highlights the various phases of Latin-into-Hebrew translations and considers their disparity in time, place, and motivations. Special emphasis is put on the singular role ...

Hispania Vetus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

Hispania Vetus

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The National Union Catalogs, 1963-
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 648

The National Union Catalogs, 1963-

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1964
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ... [1861-1866]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ... [1861-1866]

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1867
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Canadian Who's Who 2008
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1464

Canadian Who's Who 2008

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-01-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Now in its ninety-eighth year of publication, this standard Canadian reference source contains the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical information on notable living Canadians. Those listed are carefully selected because of the positions they hold in Canadian society, or because of the contribution they have made to life in Canada. The volume is updated annually to ensure accuracy, and 600 new entries are added each year to keep current with developing trends and issues in Canadian society. Included are outstanding Canadians from all walks of life: politics, media, academia, business, sports and the arts, from every area of human activity. Each entry details birth date and place...