The Kingdom of Sicily during the Norman and Swabian age

Pietro Colletta; Teofilo De Angelis; Fulvio Delle Donne

The Kingdom of Sicily during the Norman and Swabian age: forms and organization of culture and politics

Authors

Pietro Colletta

University of Enna Kore

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9030-2982

Teofilo De Angelis

University of Basilicata

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2334-4637

Fulvio Delle Donne

University of Basilicata

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9130-0820

Keywords:

Kingdom of Sicily, Medieval Southern Italy history, Medieval Latin literature

Synopsis

Series: Mediterranean Worlds, 6

Pages: 406

Language: italian

ISBN: 978-88-31309-11-0

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/resolver.pl?nbn=urn:nbn:it:unina-27010

Abstract: The Kingdom of Sicily, in the Norman and Swabian age, was a unitary political-administrative entity, but very multiform in its composite ethnic, social and territorial features. The Kings of southern Italy were able to deal with this variety: by giving a complete demonstration of their political qualities and intellectual interests, they outlined precise cultural and governmental guidelines. The University of Naples, founded in 1224, represented the full expression of the will and political farsightedness of a great king and emperor like Frederick II, but also the administrative activity was a formidable instrument of institutional and ideological regulation of the Kingdom.

This is the field of investigation of this volume which focuses, in particular, on the organizational strategies of both culture and politics. They certainly culminated in the decades dominated by the exceptional figure of Frederick II, but were prepared by his immediate Norman predecessors and – fully continued by his sons Conrad and Manfred – they were not completely unhinged even by the rulers of the Angevin dynasty.

Summary

Pietro Colletta, Teofilo De Angelis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Premessa. Politica e politiche culturali nell’età normanna e sveva

Organizzazione e strategie della cultura

Jean-Marie Martin, Culture e tipi di formazione nel Mezzogiorno prima dell’Università

Fulvio Delle Donne, L’organizzazione dello Studium di Napoli e la nobiltà del sapere

Pietro Colletta, Genesi e tradizione del mito di Guglielmo II «re buono» (secc. XII-XIV)

Teofilo De Angelis, La cultura medica e le acque termali flegree tra XII e XIII secolo: la testimonianza di Pietro da Eboli

Armando Bisanti, Orgoglio poetico e lode del sovrano nei carmina di Enrico di Avranches per Federico II

Clara Fossati, Cronaca di una battaglia mancata: Genova e Federico II nel carme di Ursone da Sestri

Martina Pavoni, «Per agros amoenos et prata florentia». Cultura epistolare e consolazione retorica in Pietro da Prezza

Mirko Vagnoni, Federico II e la messa in scena del corpo regio in immagine

Organizzazione e strategie della politica

Horst Enzensberger, Tra cancelleria e Magna Curia. L’assetto politico-amministrativo del Regno di Sicilia

Edoardo D’Angelo, Il De rebus circa regni Siciliae curiam gestis dello pseudo-Ugo Falcando: prosopografia e politica dell’età normanna

Francesco Panarelli, Ancora sullo pseudo Falcando e l’Epistola ad Petrum

Marino Zabbia, Memorie mutevoli. Federico II nelle cronache genovesi (secc. XIII-XV)

Erasmo Merendino, La politica orientale di Federico II

Rodney Lokaj, Clare the Epistolographer against Church and Empire stupenda paupertas vs stupor mundi

Walter Koller, Manfredi e l’arte della guerra

Daniela Patti, “Luoghi forti” nel territorio ennese in età medievale. Organizzazione del territorio, strategie difensive e politico-culturali nella Sicilia medievale

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Author Biographies

Pietro Colletta, University of Enna Kore

Pietro Colletta is Professor of Medieval and humanistic Latin literature at University of Enna "Kore". His main areas of research are dictamen, chancellery rhetoric, Sicilian and southern Italian historiographic tradition of the 14th and 15th centuries, in Latin and in vernacular. He is the author of many historical-philological essays and critical editions of Middle Latin texts. He is the President of the Dante Alighieri Society of Enna.

Teofilo De Angelis, University of Basilicata

Teofilo De Angelis teaches Medieval Latin literature at the University of Basilicata. He published the critical edition of the sixth book of the Letter collection by Petrus de Vinea (2014), and of De Euboicis aquis by Petrus de Ebulo (Edizione nazionale dei testi mediolatini d’Italia - 2019).

Fulvio Delle Donne, University of Basilicata

Fulvio Delle Donne is Professor of Medieval and Humanistic Latin Literature at the University of Basilicata.

His extensive scientific production combines philological-literary and historical methods and interests, covering a wide chronological arch (VI-XVI sec). His bibliography includes many critical editions and monographic volumes for prestigious publishers and numerous articles for international scientific journals. He is the President of the European Center for Studies on Aragonese Humanism and Renaissance - CESURA (www.cesura.info).