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Latin Patrons, Greek Fathers: St Bartholomew of Simeri and Byzantine Monastic Reform in Norman Italy, 11th-12th Centuries

September 29, 2014 By Medievalists.net

A mosaic with Roger II receiving the crown from Christ, Martorana, Palermo. The mosaic carries an inscription 'Rogerios Rex' in Greek letters. (Wikipedia)

St Bartholomew of Simeri (ca. 1050-1130), a Greek monastic founder and reformer from Calabria, saw the effective end of Byzantine imperial power in southern Italy in 1071, the conquest of Muslim Palermo by Robert Guiscard the following year, and the rise of the Norman kingdom of Roger II at the end of his life.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Byzantium, Calabria, Christianity, Ecclesiastical History, Eleventh Century, High Middle Ages, Italo-Greek, Italo-Norman, Italy, King Roger II of Sicily, Latin, Military History, Monasticism, Muslims, Norman Conquest of Italy, Normans, Politics, Religious Life, Robert Guiscard, Saint Bartholomew of Simeri, Sicily

Goths, Lombards, Romans, and Greeks: Creating Identity in Early Medieval Italy

July 16, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This essay explores how two different non-Roman historians represented the past to their peoples: the Gothic historian Jordanes’ sixth-century work, the Getica, and the eighth-century Lombard historian Paul the Deacons’ History of the Lombards.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Barbarians, Carolingian Renaissance, Carolingians, Early Middle Ages, Eighth Century, Ethnography, Fall of the Roman Empire, Fifth Century, Franks, Germania, Getica, Goths, Greek, Herwig Wolfram, Historiography, History of the Lombards, Italo-Greek, Italy, Jordanes, Lombards, Nationalism, Odoacer, Patrick Amory, Paul the Deacon (Paulus Diaconus), Roman Empire, Sixth Century

Greek in Marriage, Latin in Giving: The Greek Community of Fourteenth-century Palermo and the Deceptive Will of Bonannus de Geronimo

April 12, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This article discusses the pitfalls that can occur in the study of ethnicity in the me- dieval period in the context of the potential existence of two separate Greek minori- ties—one indigenous and one immigrant—in fourteenth-century Latin-dominated Palermo, Italy.