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Book Reviews Al-Masaq, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2006 The Society of Norman Italy G. A. LOUD and A. METCALFE (Eds), 2002 [The Medieval Mediterranean, 38] Leiden: E.J. Brill 381 pp. E139 ISBN 9004125418 As an exotic corner of the Mediterranean claimed by men of the north, Norman Italy held a strange allure for contemporaries and has long fascinated northern European historians. This volume reflects that fascination at its most productive: a selection of essays from new contributors to research on the Norman south, alongside work from long-established experts in the field, some now translated for the first time into English. As Graham Loud points out in the excellent introduction, the essays reflect recent interest in the social history of the south, raising a series of problems some of which will be familiar to most medievalists and all of which are interlinked. Thus they explore levels of tolerance and intolerance, degrees of Normanitas, the continuities of Arabic, Greek and Lombard administrative practices in the new Kingdom of the twelfth century, changes in the landscape brought about by incastellamento and the evolving personnel and relations of the Latin Church as it grew to dominance. Part one concentrates on the transformation of structures http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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Al-Masaq, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2006 The Society of Norman Italy G. A. LOUD and A. METCALFE (Eds), 2002 [The Medieval Mediterranean, 38] Leiden: E.J. Brill 381 pp. E139 ISBN 9004125418 As an exotic corner of the Mediterranean claimed by men of the north, Norman Italy held a strange allure for contemporaries and has long fascinated northern European historians. This volume reflects that fascination at its most productive: a selection of essays from new contributors to research on the Norman...
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Al-Masaq, Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2006 The Society of Norman Italy G. A. LOUD and A. METCALFE (Eds), 2002 [The Medieval Mediterranean, 38] Leiden: E.J. Brill 381 pp. E139 ISBN 9004125418 As an exotic corner of the Mediterranean claimed by men of the north, Norman Italy held a strange allure for contemporaries and has long fascinated northern European historians. This volume reflects that fascination at its most productive: a selection of essays from new contributors to research on the Norman south, alongside work from long-established experts in the field, some now translated for the first time into English. As Graham Loud points out in the excellent introduction, the essays reflect recent interest in the social history of the south, raising a series of problems some of which will be familiar to most medievalists and all of which are interlinked. Thus they explore levels of tolerance and intolerance, degrees of Normanitas, the continuities of Arabic, Greek and Lombard administrative practices in the new Kingdom of the twelfth century, changes in the landscape brought about by incastellamento and the evolving personnel and relations of the Latin Church as it grew to dominance. Part one concentrates on the transformation of structures

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