IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 620: Rethinking Medieval Italy, IV: Government and Political Factions in the Kingdom of Sicily
Tuesday 11 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | George Dameron, Department of History, Saint Michael's College, Vermont Valerie Ramseyer, Department of History, Wellesley College, Massachusetts |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Graham A. Loud, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 620-a | Roger II Outwits the Papacy (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
| Paper 620-b | All the Queen's Men: Queen Regents, their Advisors, and the Eastern Mediterranean World in Norman Sicily (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This panel is the fourth of seven (six plus one round table discussion) under the general theme, 'Rethinking Medieval Italy'. Scholarship by anglophone historians on medieval Sicily has only recently begun to emerge, and these two papers examine various aspects of government in the Regno. Mary Stroll looks at the volatile relationship between Roger II and the papacy, Josua Birk delves into the relationship between queen-regents and an increasingly Muslim administration in the 12th century. |