![]() ![]() The only requirement was tribute and loyalty to the de Hautevilles.Īnd so began the dazzling Norman-Greek-Islamic-Italian fusion of the Kingdom of Sicily. No reprisals, no looting, freedom for the Muslim religion and continuing application of Islamic law. Yet Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, meant every word they said. ![]() 27 years later a similar Franco-Norman Crusading army entered Jerusalem and perpetrated one of the most terrible massacres in history. The inhabitants of one of the largest Islamic cities in Europe may have feared the worst. In 1172, Palermo surrendered to the Normans on remarkably generous terms. First published in 19, I first read the two books in the 1980s and it is fascinating to revisit them three decades later. In the year of his death, Faber has re-published John Julius Norwich's classic account of the creation of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. Southern Italy and Sicily entertained Robert Guiscard (foxy Robert, Robert the Fox) and his de Hauteville relatives. There were two Norman Conquests in the eleventh century. ![]()
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