Mapping pre-modern Sicily : maritime violence, cultural exchange, and imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700 /: maritime violence, cultural exchange, and imagination in the Mediterranean, 800-1700. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Emily Sohmer Tai, Kathryn Reyerson.
• Editors: Tai, Emily Sohmer; Reyerson, Kathryn
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Maritime Violence: Piracy and War: The Struggle for the Strait.- Chapter 3: The Sicilian Vespers: Roger de Lauria and the Ambiguities of Violence.- Chapter 4: The Art of Raiding: The Catalan-Aragonese 1292 Expedition into the Aegean Sea.- Chapter 5: Logistical Arrangements Between Sicily and Southern Italy during Alfonso V's Conquest of Naples, 1435-1442.- Chapter 6: Travel and Trade: Violence and Exchange in Post-Norman Sicily.- Chapter 7: Grand Tour and Pilgrimage: Sicily in the Imagination of Ibn Jubayr.- Chapter 8: Four men in a boat. Trade practices between the French Midi and the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th and 13th centuries.- Chapter 9: Literary and Material Culture: Creating the "Communitas Siciliae" in the Post-Vespers Years.- Chapter 10: 'The Luxuriant Southern Scene:' Textiles, Clothing and Memory in the Medieval Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily.- Chapter11: Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc.- Chapter 12: Digital Sicily: Digital Mapping Technology and the War of Sicilian Vespers: Using New Methods to Better Understand Old Problems.- Chapter 13: The Norman Sicily Project: A Digital Portal to Sicily's Norman Past.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 945.8; Piracy -- Sicily (Italy) -- History; Sicily (Italy) -- History -- To 1500; Sicily (Italy) -- History -- 15th-18th centuries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031049156
• Related ISBNs: 9783031049149
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