The Agency of the Conquered : Muslim Communities in the Emergence of Norman Sicily and the Kingdom of Valencia

The Agency of the Conquered : Muslim Communities in the Emergence of Norman Sicily and the Kingdom of Valencia

Eric Böhme

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FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847018919

Eric Böhme analyses two processes of conquest which are generally considered prime examples of the expansion of Latin-Christian powers into the Islamicate Mediterranean. The Norman conquest of Sicily 1061–1091 put a close to more than two hundred years of Muslim rule over the island. Two centuries l