This volume enhances our understanding of the various strategies used by early Norman rulers of Sicily and Southern Italy – but above all Roger II of Sicily - to establish authority and cultivate identity in the Mediterranean world.

Cet ouvrage réunit une trentaine de contributions que l'on doit à une soixantaine de spécialistes, remettant l'objet au coeur du débat historique.

This book studies the interconnectedness of faith and knowledge – two concepts today often construed as mutually exclusive – in medieval and early modern Scandinavia.