Forging the Kingdom: Power in English Society, 973–1189, Judith A. Green

Автор: Montserrat Piera
Название: Forging Communities: Food and Representation in Medieval and Early Modern Southwestern Europe
ISBN: 1682260674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682260678
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to technological advancement, conquest, and maritime exploration. These essays show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity.

Автор: Hervin Fernandez-Aceves
Название: County and Nobility in Norman Italy: Aristocratic Agency in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1130-1189
ISBN: 1350133221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350133228
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Whilst historians often regard the Norman Kingdom of Sicily as centralised and administratively advanced, County and Nobility in Norman Italy counters this traditional interpretation; far from centralised and streamlined, this book reveals how the genesis and social structures of the kingdom were constantly fraught between the forces of royal power and local aristocracy authority. In doing so, Hervin Fernandez-Aceves sheds important new light on medieval Italy.

This book is the result of thorough research conducted on the vast source material for the history of this fascinating 12th-century world. Starting with the activities of Norman counts and the configuration of the counties, it explores how social control operated in these nodes of regional authority, and argues that the Sicilian monarchy relied on the counties (and the counts' authority) to keep the realm united and exercise control.