Medievalists.net » Robert Guiscard 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 Latin Patrons, Greek Fathers: St Bartholomew of Simeri and Byzantine Monastic Reform in Norman Italy, 11th-12th Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/29/latin-patrons-greek-fathers-st-bartholomew-simeri-byzantine-monastic-reform-norman-italy-11th-12th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/29/latin-patrons-greek-fathers-st-bartholomew-simeri-byzantine-monastic-reform-norman-italy-11th-12th-centuries/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:56:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52934 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.

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