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Title A companion to medieval Palermo : the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500 / edited by Annliese Nef ; French and Italian texts translated by Martin Thom.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Series Brill's companions to European history, 2212-7410 ; volume 5
Brill's companions to European history ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-528) and index.
Contents The medieval history of Palermo in a new light / Annliese Nef -- Palermo in the eastern Roman empire / Vivien Prigent -- Islamic Palermo and the Dar al-Islam : politics, society and the economy (from the mid-9th to the mid-11th century) / Annliese Nef -- From a small town to a capital : the urban evolution of Islamic Palermo (9th-mid-11th century) / Alessandra Bagnera -- Palermo experienced, Palermo imagined : Arabic and Islamic culture (9th to 12th-centuries) / Mirella Cassarino -- Norman Palermo : the capital of a kingdom or the dream scene of an empire? / Annliese Nef -- Norman Palermo : architecture between the 11th and 12th century / Rosi Di Liberto -- Palermo in the 12th century : transformations in forma urbis / Elena Pezzini -- Palermo in the 14th-15th century : urban economy and trade / Henri Bresc -- Palermo in the 14th-15th century : the urban society / Igor Mineo -- Palermo as a stage for, and a mirror of, political developments from the 12th to the 15th century / Laura Sciascia -- The city of foreigners : Palermo and the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 15th century / Gian Luca Borghese -- Religious Palermo : a panorama between the 12th and the 15th centuries / Henri Bresc -- Monreale from its origin to the end of the Middle Ages / Sulamith Brodbeck -- Linguistic cultures and textual production in Palermo, from the end of the 11th to the end of the 15th century / Benoit Grevin -- The Jews of Palermo from late antiquity to the expulsion (598-1492) / Giuseppe Mandala -- Citizens and freedom in medieval Sicily / Fabrizio Titone.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Palermo (Italy) -- History -- To 1500.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nef, Annliese, author, editor.
Thom, Martin, translator.
Other Form: Print version: Companion to medieval Palermo : the history of a Mediterranean city from 600 to 1500. Leiden : Brill, 2013 xviii, 542 pages ; 24 cm Brill's companions to European history ; volume 5 9789004223929 (DLC)10959407
ISBN 9789004223929 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004252530 (e-book)

 
    
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