| Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries Contributor(s): Kreutz, Barbara M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812215877 ISBN-13: 9780812215878 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Europe - Italy |
| Dewey: 945.702 |
| LCCN: 91029118 |
| Series: Middle Ages |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.18" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Italy - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |