The Crusades, the Kingdom of Sicily, and the Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9781138382336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

JAMES M. POWELL

Opis

This collection of studies by James M. Powell focuses on two related centers of attention. The first is the crusade campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the reasons for them, and the manner in which they were organized and promoted. The second is the society, economy and Muslim population of the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II, himself a crusader.

Recenzje

’Researchers working in the fields covered by this collection will be ignoring Powell’s work at their own risk. This collection will help to ensure that they do not.’ The Catholic Historical Review ’The virtues of this collection are many, not least the author’s admirable knowledge of the printed sources for southern Italy in the early thirteenth century.’ English Historical Review

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Crusading : 1099-1999; Myth, legend, propaganda, history: the First Crusade, 1140-ca.1300; Frederick II and the Muslims: the making of an historiographical tradition; The role of women in the 5th Crusade; Frederick II, the Hohenstaufen and the Teutonic Order in the kingdom of Sicily; Innocent III and Alexius III: a crusade plan that failed; Patriarch Gerold and Frederick II: the Matthew Paris letter; Matthew Paris, the lives of Muhammad, and the Dominicans; Innocent III, the Trinitarians, and the renewal of the Church, 1198-1200; Crusading by royal command: monarchy and crusade in the kingdom of Sicily (1187-1230); Honorius III and the leadership of the crusade; The Papacy and the Muslim frontier; Francesco d'Assisi e la Quinta Crociata: una missione di pace; Frederick II and the rebellion of the Muslims of Sicily, 1200-1224; Genoese policy and the kingdom of Sicily, 1220-1240; Economy and society in the kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II: recent perspectives; Medieval monarchy and trade: the economic policy of Frederick II in the kingdom of Sicily (a survey); Index.

O autorze

James M. Powell (1930 - 2011) was Professor of History Emeritus at Syracuse University, USA.