The Peoples Of Sicily
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The Peoples Of Sicily
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Author : Louis Mendola
language : en
Publisher: Trinacria Editions Llc
Release Date : 2014-11-10
The Peoples Of Sicily written by Louis Mendola and has been published by Trinacria Editions Llc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-10 with History categories.
Can the eclectic medieval history of the world's most conquered island be a lesson for our times? Home to Normans, Byzantines, Arabs, Germans and Jews, 12th-century Sicily was a crossroads of cultures and faiths, the epitome of diversity. Here Europe, Asia and Africa met, with magical results. Bilingualism was the norm, women's rights were defended, and the environment was protected. Literacy among Sicilians soared; it was higher during this ephemeral golden age than it was seven centuries later. But this book is about more than Sicily. It is a singular, enduring lesson in the way multicultural diversity can be encouraged, with the result being a prosperous society. While its focus is the civilizations that flourished during the island's multicultural medieval period from 1060 to 1260, most of Sicily's complex history to the end of the Middle Ages is outlined. Idrisi is mentioned, but so is Archimedes. Introductory background chapters begin in the Neolithic, continuing to the history of the contested island under Punics and Greeks. Every civilization that populated the island is covered, including Romans, Goths, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Germans, Angevins, Aragonese and Jews, with profiles of important historical figures and sites. Religion, law, geography and cuisine are also considered. The authors' narrative is interesting but never pedantic, intended for the general reader rather than the expert in anthropology, theology, art or architecture. They are not obsessed with arcane terminology, and they don't advocate a specific agenda or world view. Here two erudite scholars take their case to the people. Yes, this book actually sets forth the entirety of ancient and medieval Sicilian history from the earliest times until around 1500, and it presents a few nuggets of the authors' groundbreaking research in medieval manuscripts. Unlike most authors who write in English about Sicily, perhaps visiting the island for brief research trips, these two are actually based in Sicily, where their work appears on a popular website. Sicily aficionados will be familiar with their writings, which have been read by some ten million during the last five years, far eclipsing the readership of any other historians who write about Sicily. Alio and Mendola are the undisputed, international "rock stars" of Sicilian historical writing, with their own devoted fan base. Every minute of the day somebody is reading their online articles. This is a great book for anybody who is meeting Sicily for the first time, the most significant 'general' history of the island published in fifty years and certainly one of the most eloquent. It has a detailed chronology, a useful reading list, and a brief guide suggesting places to visit. The book's structure facilitates its use as a ready reference. It would have run to around 600 pages, instead of 368 (on archival-quality, acid-free paper), were it not for the slightly smaller print of the appendices, where the chronology, the longest Sicilian timeline ever published, is 20 pages long. Unlike most histories of Sicily, the approach to this one is multifaceted and multidisciplinary. In what may be a milestone in Sicilian historiography, a section dedicated to population genetics explains how Sicily's historic diversity is reflected in its plethora of haplogroups. Here medieval Sicily is viewed as an example of a tolerant, multicultural society and perhaps even a model. It is an unusually inspiring message. One reader was moved to tears as she read the preface. Can a book change our view of cultures and perhaps even the way we look at history? This one just might. Meet the peoples!
The Kingdom Of Sicily 1130 1860
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Author : Louis Mendola
language : en
Publisher: Trinacria Editions LLC
Release Date : 2015-10-05
The Kingdom Of Sicily 1130 1860 written by Louis Mendola and has been published by Trinacria Editions LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with History categories.
This lively narrative traces the history of Sicily from the foundation of its multicultural kingdom under the Normans in the twelfth century to the end of its baroque monarchy in the nineteenth, with framing chapters covering the periods before and afterward. Here, in a captivating text, a leading historian tells the complex yet fascinating story of the world's most conquered, most contested island. Accompanied by numerous maps, pedigree charts and a lengthy chronology, this is a rare journey into understanding, and a solid reference.
Sicily
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Author : Sandra Benjamin
language : en
Publisher: Steerforth
Release Date : 2010-04-20
Sicily written by Sandra Benjamin and has been published by Steerforth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with History categories.
Take a tour through the Mediterranean’s largest island in this first and only history of Sicily for general readers—perfect for armchair travelers, historians, and anyone planning their next Italian vacation. The emigration of people from Sicily often overshadows the importance of the people who immigrated to its shores throughout the centuries. Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy—and countless others—have all held sway and left lasting influences on the island’s culture and architecture. Moreover, Sicily’s character has been shaped by what has passed it by. Events that affected Europe, namely the Crusades and Columbus’ discovery of the Americas, had little influence on Italy’s most famous island. The first and only history of Sicily for the general reader, this book examines how location turned this charming Mediterranean island into the epicenter of major historical conquests, cultures, and more. Complete with maps, biographical notes, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, and pronunciation keys, Sicily is at once a useful travel guide and an informative, entertaining exploration of the island’s remarkable history.
The History Of Sicily
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Author : Louis Mendola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-10
The History Of Sicily written by Louis Mendola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-10 with categories.
The history of Sicily from neolithic times to the 21st century, by one of its leading historians.
Sicily The Garden Of The Mediterranean
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Author : Will Seymour Monroe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Sicily The Garden Of The Mediterranean written by Will Seymour Monroe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Sicily (Italy) categories.
The Invention Of Sicily
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Author : Jamie Mackay
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Invention Of Sicily written by Jamie Mackay and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with History categories.
Whether you’re vacationing in Italy or simply an armchair traveler, this guide to the Mediterranean island of Sicily is a dazzling introduction to the region’s rich 3,000-year history and culture. A rich and fascinating cultural history of the Mediterranean’s enigmatic heart Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either. Despite being conquered by empires—Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Hapsburg Spain—it remains uniquely apart. The island’s story maps a mosaic that mixes the story of myth and wars, maritime empires and reckless crusades, and a people who refuse to be ruled. In this riveting, rich history Jamie Mackay peels away the layers of this most mysterious of islands. This story finds its origins in ancient myth but has been reinventing itself across centuries: in conquest and resistance. Inseparable from these political and social developments are the artefacts of the nation’s cultural patrimony—ancient amphitheaters, Arab gardens, Baroque Cathedrals, as well as great literature such as Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s masterpiece The Leopard, and the novels and plays of Luigi Pirandello. In its modern era, Sicily has been the site of revolution, Cosa Nostra and, in the twenty-first century, the epicenter of the refugee crisis.
Kingdom Of Sicily 1130 1266
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Author : Louis Mendola
language : en
Publisher: Sicilian Medieval Studies
Release Date : 2022-09-18
Kingdom Of Sicily 1130 1266 written by Louis Mendola and has been published by Sicilian Medieval Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-18 with History categories.
A defining reference work whose engaging narrative brings southern Italy's Middle Ages to life. This is the first major history written in English about the Kingdom of Sicily under its Hauteville and Hohenstaufen dynasties in the High Middle Ages. Encompassing the island of Sicily and most of the Italian peninsula south of Rome, this multicultural society of Muslims, Jews, and Christians East and West, was a nexus where the civilizations of feudal Europe, Byzantine Asia, and Fatimid Africa flourished in synergy into the 13th century. Unlike most histories of the kingdom, this one brings the reader much information about social culture, such as the language and cuisine that emerged from this eclectic era to influence southern Italy and its people in ways still seen today. There are revealing chapters on the language popularized before Italian, and the culinary milieu that gave us spaghetti and lasagne. Women are never overlooked. Among them are Margaret of Navarre, regent for five years, Trota of Salerno, author of a medical treatise, Nina of Messina, the first woman known to compose poetry in an Italian tongue, and the unnamed Bint Muhammad ibn Abbad, who led a rebellion alongside her father. This long-awaited book presents an essential chronological history supplemented by concise sections on topics such as phylogeography, coinage, and heraldry, with dozens of maps and genealogical tables. It has hundreds of endnotes, a lengthy bibliography, a timeline, and appendices on regalia, the kingdom's first legal code, the coronation rite, the longest poem of the Sicilian School, and historiography. A long introduction explores sources, ethnic identity, historical views, and research methods, candidly dispelling a few myths. This hefty volume has something for everybody. It's a fine addition to library collections and a useful reference for students, while its lively narrative makes it an engaging read for anybody curious about this time and place. Those having roots in southern Italy will discover the origins of their ancestral culture, the ethnogenesis that led to what exists today. This long glimpse of a singular society was worth the wait.
The History Of The Province Of Sicily
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Author : Elsie Safford Jenison
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
The History Of The Province Of Sicily written by Elsie Safford Jenison and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II Roman Conquest And Organization Of The Province I. The First Punic War In the first quarter of the third century before Christ, affairs in Sicily came to take on a new aspect. Pyrrhus, in his fruitless attempt at Sicilian domination, succeeded only in increasing the burdens of a people already much harassed by strife.1 Carthage had gained possession of the greater part of the island, and the territory of Syracuse had dwindled, except for Tauromenium, to the southeast corner of the island. Rome, the real antagonist of Carthage, had extended her rule over all southern Italy, except Tarentum, which fell into her hands in 272. It took no great political sagacity in Pyrrhus to predict the future clash of Carthage and Rome over the rich and beautiful island which would give to either, if conqueror, so great a military advantage over the other. The question whether the desire of Rome for the island was chiefly strategic or economic is difficult to answer. That Rome was already dependent upon countries outside of Italy for a part of her grain may be argued from the fact that Hiero sent grain to Rome during the Celtic Wars,2 that at the end of the First Punic War he distributed two hundred thousand modii of wheat among the people of Rome,8 that he offered to supply grain gratuitously, as well as clothing and arms, at the beginning of the Second Punic War,1 and that he did contribute large quantities of food just before the Battle of Cannae.2 Polybius relates that in the Second Punic War the allies of the interior of Sicily were obliged to furnish grain.3 It must be remembered, however, that all this was in time of war, when Rome's own production of food, even if ordinarily sufficient, would be seriously interrupted. The fact that Hiero...
Sicily The Garden Of The Mediterranean The History People Institutions Ands Geography Of The Island
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Author : Will Seymour Monroe
language : en
Publisher: Joseph. Press
Release Date : 2010-04
Sicily The Garden Of The Mediterranean The History People Institutions Ands Geography Of The Island written by Will Seymour Monroe and has been published by Joseph. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with categories.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Sicily
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Author : John Julius Norwich
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-07-21
Sicily written by John Julius Norwich and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-21 with History categories.
Critically acclaimed author John Julius Norwich weaves the turbulent story of Sicily into a spellbinding narrative that places the island at the crossroads of world history. “Sicily,” said Goethe, “is the key to everything.” It is the largest island in the Mediterranean, the stepping-stone between Europe and Africa, the link between the Latin West and the Greek East. Sicily’s strategic location has tempted Roman emperors, French princes, and Spanish kings. The subsequent struggles to conquer and keep it have played crucial roles in the rise and fall of the world’s most powerful dynasties. Yet Sicily has often been little more than a footnote in books about other empires. John Julius Norwich’s engrossing narrative is the first to knit together all of the colorful strands of Sicilian history into a single comprehensive study. Here is a vivid, erudite, page-turning chronicle of an island and the remarkable kings, queens, and tyrants who fought to rule it. From its beginnings as a Greek city-state to its emergence as a multicultural trading hub during the Crusades, from the rebellion against Italian unification to the rise of the Mafia, the story of Sicily is rich with extraordinary moments and dramatic characters. Writing with his customary deftness and humor, Norwich outlines the surprising influence Sicily has had on world history—the Romans’ fascination with Greek civilization dates back to their sack of Sicily—and tells the story of one of the world’s most kaleidoscopic cultures in a galvanizing, contemporary way. This volume has been a long time coming—Norwich began to explore Sicily’s colorful history during his first visit to the island in the early 1960s. The dean of popular historians leads his readers through the millennia with the steady narrative hand of a master teacher or the world’s most learned tour guide. Like the island itself, Sicily is a book brimming with bold flavors that begs to be revisited again and again. Praise for Sicily “Suavely readable . . . The very model of a popular historian, [Norwich] writes to give pleasure to the common reader. And what pleasure it is.”—The Wall Street Journal “Entertaining on every page . . . There is something ancient and sorrowful in Sicily, ‘some dark, brooding quality,’ just as captivating as its spellbinding history or its beautiful and varied landscapes, from beaches to lemon groves, pine forests to volcanoes. . . . The most amiable and freewheeling of guides, Norwich will always find time for the amusing anecdote.”—The Sunday Times “Utterly engrossing . . . written with passion about the art and architecture of this magical island, filled with gossipy tidbits and sweeping historical theories.”—The Daily Beast “Dazzling . . . Norwich is an elegantly graceful and entertaining storyteller.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch “Charming . . . richly nuanced history relayed with enormous fondness.”—Kirkus Reviews “A brisk and always-lively tour.”—Open Letters Monthly “Norwich is deeply in love with Sicily. [His] boundless affection has inspired a determined effort to understand its painful past. The result is impressionistic, as love often is.”—The Times “Norwich sketches personalities vividly. . . . He does the island and the reader a generous service in providing such an amiable introduction.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Norwich tells [Sicily’s] long, sad but fascinating story with sympathy and brio.”—Literary Review