|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
This 1995 book is a detailed study of Sicilian life in the reign of
Frederick III (1296-1337), a period which saw Sicily reduced from a
bustling and prosperous Mediterranean emporium to a poor backwater
torn apart by violence. The relative economic and social
backwardness of Sicily within modern Italy has attracted
considerable scholarly attention. Attempts to explain its ingrained
poverty and civil strife usually blame either the legacy of two
thousand years of colonisation by rapacious foreigners or the
inherent weaknesses in the island itself and its people. More
recently a model of 'economic dualism' has pointed to basic
structural flaws in the economic relations that were established
between the island and its continental trading partners from the
twelfth century onwards. This book, by focusing on Frederick III's
crucial reign, argues that there were many more things 'wrong' with
Sicilian life than just the shape of its overseas trade relations.
Revised for its fourth edition, The Worlds of Medieval Europe,
presents a distinctive and nuanced portrayal of the Greater West
during its medieval millennium. By integrating the histories of the
Islamic and Byzantine worlds into the main narrative, author
Clifford R. Backman offers an insightful, detailed, and often witty
look at the continuum of interaction-social, cultural,
intellectual, and commercial-that existed among all three
societies.
This is the first detailed study of Sicilian life in the reign of Frederick III (1296-1337), a period that marked Sicily's transition from a bustling and prosperous Mediterranean emporium to a poor backwater torn apart by violence. This book, by focusing on Frederick III's crucial reign, argues that there were many more things "wrong" with Sicilian life than just the shape of its overseas trade relations. Placing itself between those who blame the foreigners and those who blame the Sicilians themselves, it shows that an entire nexus of factors and influences were at work in unravelling Sicilian life. It also demonstrates that these forces can be seen best in the forty years that followed Sicily's liberation from foreign control in the bloody war of the "Sicilian Vespers."
|
You may like...
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R49
Discovery Miles 490
|