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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century

The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century

Name: The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Steven Runciman
ISBN: 9780521437745

Steven Runciman

31/07/1992
Cambridge University Press

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Couverture de The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century par Steven Runciman

Résumé

On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians might seem just another resistance movement. But the events of 1282 came at a crucial moment. Steven Runciman takes the Vespers as the climax of a great narrative sweep covering the whole of the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century. His sustained narrative power is displayed here with concentrated brilliance in the rise and fall of this fascinating episode. This is also an excellent guide to the historical background to Dante's Divine Comedy, forming almost a Who's Who of the political figures in it, and providing insight into their placement in Hell, Paradise or Purgatory.