Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily
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Abd Al Rah
Abu? L Qa?sim
Al At
arabic
Arabic Names
Arabic Place Names
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Author_Alexander Metcalfe
Berber Dialects
Berber Settlement
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demone
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Greek Scribe
Henry Aristippus
Latin Scribes
Loan Words
Mixed Names
non-Arabic Elements
period
rah
registers
Roger II
Santa Maria Nuova
sicilian
Sicilian Arabic
Sicilian Dialect
Sicilian Greek
Sicilian Kings
Sicilian Muslims
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Val Demone
Vera Von Falkenhausen
Vice Versa
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Villein Registers
William II
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- ISBN 9780415616447
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily was an almost exclusively Christian island, with Romance dialects in evidence everywhere. Of particular importance to the development of Sicily was the formative period of Norman rule (1061 1194), when most of the key transitions from an Arabic-speaking Muslim island to a 'Latin'-speaking Christian one were made. This work sets out the evidence for those changes and provides an authoritative approach that re-defines the conventional thinking on the subject.
Alex Metcalfe holds degrees in Literae Humaniores from Exeter College, Oxford and Arabic from the University of Leeds. After extensive travel in Europe and the Middle East and employment as a foreign exchange trader, soldier and teacher, he completed a doctorate at Leeds that serves as the basis of this present work.
