Norman Conquest of Italy Archives

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

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.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arabic, Byzantium, Fourteenth Century, Greek, High Middle Ages, Italo-Greek, Italo-Norman, Italy, Late Middle Ages, Latin, Marriage, Monasticism, Norman Conquest of Italy, Normans, Palermo, Slavery, Twelfth Century, Wills

Saracen Archers in Southern Italy

February 28, 2011 By Medievalists.net

The Normans, soon after the conquest of Sicily was complete, began using Sicilian Saracen mounted and foot archers as auxiliary troops: in 1076 they were included in the Guiscard army at the seizure of Salerno