Kingdom of Sicily 1130-1266

This is the first major history written in English about the Kingdom of Sicily under its Hauteville and Hohenstaufen dynasties in the High Middle Ages. Encompassing the island of Sicily and most of the Italian peninsula south of Rome, this multicultural society of Muslims, Jews, and Christians East and West, was a nexus where the civilizations of feudal Europe, Byzantine Asia and Fatimid Africa flourished in synergy into the 13th century. Unlike most histories of the kingdom, this one brings the