The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily Brown Gordon S.
The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily Brown Gordon S. The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livelihood, but once there,…
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The Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily Brown Gordon S.
The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livelihood, but once there, found opportunity for fame and fortune. This rich and often dramatic study focuses on the eight sons of Tancred of Hauteville, especially Robert Guiscard, who has been called the most dazzling military ruler between Julius Caesar and Napoleon, and his youngest brother Roger, who conquered Sicily. The story of the Norman conquest in Italy and Sicily is indeed one of knights and adventurers, great battles and lowly pillage, opportunism and statesmanship, and crusade and coexistence.
The brothers, often in conflict with each other, challenged both the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire, became the main supporters of the reformed Papacy, and founded It discusses how they expanded their lands throughout southern Italy, and then took Sicily from its Muslim rulers.
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