Medievalists.net » Palermo http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Greek in Marriage, Latin in Giving: The Greek Community of Fourteenth-century Palermo and the Deceptive Will of Bonannus de Geronimo http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/greek-marriage-latin-giving-greek-community-fourteenth-century-palermo-deceptive-will-bonannus-de-geronimo/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/12/greek-marriage-latin-giving-greek-community-fourteenth-century-palermo-deceptive-will-bonannus-de-geronimo/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2014 14:26:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48912 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.

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