Description
Book SynopsisThis student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. -- .
Trade ReviewScholars will welcome the appearance of Graham Loud’s Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which provides an illuminating window on the construction, consolidation and extension of the Norman kingdom of Sicily under Roger II (1130–1154 ….this work is another success for the popular Manchester Medieval Sources Series.
This work is not simply a selection of translated materials with minimal context and apparatus, but a highly effective and fully annotated book that will satisfy both the specialist and those new to the subject...It will remain highly useful as a first port of call for the Anglophone reader for some time to come.
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Table of ContentsPreface
List of abbreviations
Genealogical charts
Maps
Introduction
Abbot Alexander of Telese, *The History of the Most Serene Roger, first King of Sicily*
The *Chronicle* of Falco of Benevento
Romuald of Salerno, *Chronicon Sive Annales, 1125–54*
German sources for the reign of King Roger
The Montecassino Chronicle of Peter the Deacon
The *Chronicle* of St. Clement of Casauria
Roger II and the papacy: Selected documents
The Assizes (or Constitutions) of King Roger
The Catalogue of the Barons
*The Book of Roger* by Abû ‘Abdallâh al-Idrîsî
Bibliography
Index
