Hiroshi Takayama - Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

HIROSHI TAKAYAMA

Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages (CS1076)

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VARIORUM COLLECTED STUDIES SERIES CS1076

This book is a collection of reprinted essays devoted to the study of Sicily and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, a crossroads of Latin-Christian, Greek-Byzantine and Arab-Islamic cultures. The papers included here were published in English between 1985 and 2017. Of the twenty papers and reviews (chapters and appendixes), eighteen are reprinted here as originally published, with a few minor corrections and modifications. In I have removed all Japanese and Chinese characters from the text and notes, and attached an appendix of Chinese texts quoted.

The range of the papers extends from Norman administration to multi-cultural elements at the royal court, confrontation of powers (kings, nobles, bureaucrats and cities), religious tolerance, Frederick IIs crusade (Christian-Muslim diplomacy), migrations and classification of villeins. In a series of papers on the administrative structure of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, I have engaged in major debates with other scholars in the field based on analysis of Latin, Greek and Arabic documents as well as multilingual parchments. These works would give insight into how the Norman rulers successfully governed multi-cultural people in Sicily and South Italy.

The special position of medieval Sicily and the Mediterranean, bordered by the Latin, Greek and Islamic cultural zones, makes possible the analysis of the three different cultural elements within the same context and offers a valuable and rare vantage point to grasp the picture of a larger geographical unity in which the three different cultures interacted. I hope this book will reveal various aspects of cross-cultural activities in medieval Sicily and the Mediterranean, as well as the historical relationship between Christians and Muslims, and thus help us understand the globalizing world in which people with different religions, languages and cultures interact more intensely than ever.

For the publication of this book, I would like particularly to thank Professor David Abulafia of Cambridge University and Professor Anna Abulafia of Oxford University who gave me valuable suggestions, advice, encouragement and recommendations. I would also like to express my gratitude to my supervisors, Professor Kichi Kabayama, Professor Takeshi Kido and Professor Tsugitaka Sat () at the University of Tokyo; Professor John Boswell (), Professor Robert Stacey and Professor Harry Miskimin () at Yale University; and those scholars who gave me their valuable advice and encouragement, especially Professor Kenneth M. Setton (), Professor Giles Constable, Professor David J. Herlihy (), Professor Robert I. Burns (), Professor Norbert Kamp (), Professor Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Professor Peter Herde, Dr. Susan Reynolds, Professor Pierre Toubert, Professor Shsabur Kimura, Professor Sadao It, Professor Henri Bresc, Dr. Jean-Marie Martin, Professor Giovanni Maniscalco Basile (), Professor Masanori Aoyagi, Professor Jean-Philippe Genet, Professor Lester K. Little, Professor Shichi Sat, Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt, Professor Kazuhiko Kond, Professor Hubert Houben, Professor Horst Enzensberger, Professor Patrick J. Geary, Professor Errico Cuozzo, Professor Michael Borgolte, Professor Katsumi Fukasawa, Professor Pietro Corrao, Professor Jeremy Johns, Professor Graham Loud, Professor Lucia Travaini, Professor Shunichi Ikegami and Professor Claudia Rapp. For the preparation of the manuscript, I am grateful to my graduate students, especially Daiki Sano, Shinichi Kubo, Takanori Shibata, Wataru Yanada and Andrea A. Tanosaki.

I should like to dedicate this book to my wife Yoshiko Takayama.

H IROSHI T AKAYAMA
The University of Tokyo
14 February 2019

I would like to thank the following persons, editors, publishers and organizations for permission to reprint the articles as the chapters of this book: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA) for .

The articles and reviews included in this book first appeared in the following publications: