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Dawn Marie Hayes' Roger II of Sicily offers both a responseto and a deep engagement with Hubert Houben's magisterial biography, Roger of Sicily: A Ruler Between East and West (Cambridge University Press, 2002) which Graham Loud and Diane Milburn translated into English almost two decades ago. Despite the general praise Hoeben's biography ...
May 20, 2020 · Summary. The seventh chapter starts with an analysis of the different sources narrating Roger II of Sicily’s ritual coronation, performed on 25 December 1130. Roger sought for his monarchy the appearance of a legitimate kingdom, supported by the weight of tradition, that the Pope had restored with the consent of the princes and the people ...
J.J. Norwich | Published in History Today Volume 20 Issue 5 May 1970. Few kingdoms have had more inauspicious beginnings than the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. By the year 1130 Count Roger II de Hauteville had already reigned in Palermo for a quarter of a century, since his childhood; and after his acquisition, two years before, of the duchies of ...
Sep 14, 2023 · 1128–1132 Tankred. Roger II (22 December 1095 [1] – 26 February 1154) was King of Sicily, son of Roger I of Sicily and successor to his brother Simon. He began his rule as Count of Sicily in 1105, later became Duke of Apulia and Calabria (1127), then King of Sicily (1130).
of Roger's character and reign that is reflected in his works. 1. Promotio Siciliae ad Regnum In 1130, when Roger II of the house of Altavilla (Hauteville) was crowned king of Sicily, Calabria, and Apulia, the island, a well governed and economically prosperous state, was fully prepared for the leadership it was to assume over the
Mar 1, 2023 · Hubert Houben, Roger II Of Sicily: A Ruler Between East And West (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Skip to main content We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us!
Feb 8, 2021 · Roger II of Sicily: Family, Faith, and Empire in the Medieval Mediterranean World Dawn Marie Hayes, Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces VII (Brepols: Turnhout, 2020), 220 pp. £73.36, ISBN 978-2503581408
