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Recalcitrant Crusaders? The Relationship between Southern Italy and Sicily, Crusading and the Crusader States, c.1060-1198

Recalcitrant Crusaders? The Relationship between Southern Italy and Sicily, Crusading and the... BOOK REVIEWS 209 Milan for some considerable time ahead. If one were to read one work on Early Medieval Milan this would be it. Christopher Heath Manchester Metropolitan University c.heath@mmu.ac.uk © 2020 Christopher Heath https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2020.1767875 Recalcitrant Crusaders? The Relationship between Southern Italy and Sicily, Crusading and the Crusader States, c.1060-1198, P. Z. Hailstone, Advances in Crusades Research (Routledge: Abingdon, 2020), xiv + 235 pp. There has long been a need for a detailed study on Norman Sicily and Southern Italy’s engage- ment with the crusading movement during the Twelfth Century. To date, knowledge of this region’s involvement in the crusades has generally hinged on two key points. The first is that Bohemond of Taranto and his contingent are known to have joined the crusade from this area. The second is that King Baldwin I of Jerusalem bigamously married the widow of Roger I of Sicily, Adelaide of Salerno, only to have their union dissolved a year or two before his death (1118). It has long been thought that this insult effectively killed-off relations between Sicily and the Crusader States for the foreseeable future. Hailstone’s book addresses both these points, discussing Bohemond and the Hautville clan’s involvement in the early http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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BOOK REVIEWS 209 Milan for some considerable time ahead. If one were to read one work on Early Medieval Milan this would be it. Christopher Heath Manchester Metropolitan University c.heath@mmu.ac.uk © 2020 Christopher Heath https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2020.1767875 Recalcitrant Crusaders? The Relationship between Southern Italy and Sicily, Crusading and the Crusader States, c.1060-1198, P. Z. Hailstone, Advances in Crusades Research (Routledge: Abingdon, 2020), xiv + 235 pp. There...
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BOOK REVIEWS 209 Milan for some considerable time ahead. If one were to read one work on Early Medieval Milan this would be it. Christopher Heath Manchester Metropolitan University c.heath@mmu.ac.uk © 2020 Christopher Heath https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2020.1767875 Recalcitrant Crusaders? The Relationship between Southern Italy and Sicily, Crusading and the Crusader States, c.1060-1198, P. Z. Hailstone, Advances in Crusades Research (Routledge: Abingdon, 2020), xiv + 235 pp. There has long been a need for a detailed study on Norman Sicily and Southern Italy’s engage- ment with the crusading movement during the Twelfth Century. To date, knowledge of this region’s involvement in the crusades has generally hinged on two key points. The first is that Bohemond of Taranto and his contingent are known to have joined the crusade from this area. The second is that King Baldwin I of Jerusalem bigamously married the widow of Roger I of Sicily, Adelaide of Salerno, only to have their union dissolved a year or two before his death (1118). It has long been thought that this insult effectively killed-off relations between Sicily and the Crusader States for the foreseeable future. Hailstone’s book addresses both these points, discussing Bohemond and the Hautville clan’s involvement in the early

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Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean – Taylor & Francis

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