The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century PDF
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THE SICILIAN VESPERS BY THE SAME AUTHOR A History of the Crusades (Three Volumes) The Medieval Manichee CHARLES OF ANJOU THE SICILIAN VESPERS A HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN THE LATER THIRTEENTH CENTURY BY STEVEN RUNCIMAN CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1958 PUBLISHED BY THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRBSS Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London, N.W. 1 American Branch: 32 East 57th Street, New York 22, N.Y. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1958 Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge (Brooke Crutchley, University Printer) To GEORGE MACAULAY TREVELYAN , in admiration gratitude and friendship CONTENTS PLATES page ix MAPS ix PREFACE xi PROLOGUE: SICILY I I. THE DEATH OF ANTICHRIST 16 II. THE HOHENSTAUFEN INHERITANCE 26 III. ACROSS THE ADRIATIC 39 IV. THE SEARCH FOR A KING: EDMUND OF 53 ENGLAND V. THE SEARCH FOR A KING: CHARLES OF ANJOU 65 VI. THE ANGEVIN INVASION 78 VII. CONRADIN 96 Vili. KING CHARLES OF SICILY II7 IX. A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 135 X. POPE GREGORY X 148 XI. THE ANGEVIN REVIVAL I7I XII. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY 201 XIII. THE VESPERS 214 XIV. THE DUEL BETWEEN THEK INGS 228 XV. THE END OF KING CHARLES 242 VÜ CONTENTS XVI. THE VESPERS AND THE FATE OF SICILY page XVII. THE VESPERS AND THE FATE OF EUROPE 280 APPENDIX JOHN OF PROC1DA AND THE VESPERS 288 NOTES 294 BIBLIOGRAPHY 331 I. ORIGINAL SOURCES 331 II. MODERN WORKS 334 GENEALOGICAL TABLES facing page 338 I. THE ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE II. THE ROYAL HOUSE OF SICILY (NAPLES) III. THE ROYAL HOUSES OF ARAGON, SICILY (trINACRIA), AND MAJORCA IV. THE IMPERIAL HOUSE OF HOHENSTAUFEN V. THE HOUSE OF ANGELUS, EASTERN EMPERORS AND DESPOTS OF EPIRUS VI. THE ROYAL HOUSE OF HUNGARY INDEX 339
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