Before the Normans - Barbara M. Kreutz
| Автор: | Barbara M. Kreutz |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | The Middle Ages Series |
| Жанр произведения: | История |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9780812205435 |
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.