IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1215: Journeying along Medieval Routes, III: Normans in Southern Italy and Sicily
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton |
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| Organiser: | Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Oldfield, Department of History & Economic History, Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Paper 1215-a | Travelling to Southern Italy in the Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
| Paper 1215-b | Les routes du sud de l'Italie dans les ouvrages géographiques d'al-Idrîsî (Language: Français) Index terms: Administration, Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1215-c | Travelling between Calabria and Sicily c.1050-1154 in the Local Latin and Arabic Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History |
| Abstract | This session examines the routes taken by the Normans to and around southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries. The speakers use a wide range of sources (both Latin and Arabic) including chronicles, charters, the landscape, and the geographical writings and maps of al-Idrisi to examine a number of issues. These include the experience of travelling around the region, the network of roads within it and the veracity or otherwise of descriptions of routes and landscapes. In employing methodology from other disciplines we hope to gain a fuller picture of a much neglected theme as well as a better understanding of administrative processes within Norman southern Italy. |