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Norman Sicily #2) The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 (1970. 2010) by Norwich, John Julius is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Norman Sicily #2) The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194 (1970. 2010) about?

In this (2nd) volume, John Julius Norwich tells the story of the Kingdom in all its splendour, through the reigns of the grotesquely misnamed William the Bad and the Good to the bastard Tancred desperately struggling to preserve his country's independence. We read too of St Bernard, magnetic but insufferable, of Adrian IV, the only English Pope and of a surprising number of other compatriots including Richard the Lionheart (behaving abominably in Messina), his sister Queen Joanna of Sicily, and the sinister Walter of the Mill, the only man in history regularly to sign himself Emir and Archbishop.This is narrative history at its most scintillating, but it is also a superb traveller's guide, listing, as it does, every Norman building still extant on the island. John Julius Norwich's full history of Norman Sicily is in two volumes: The Normans in the South and The Kingdom in the Sun. Both are available in Faber Finds.

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Author

Norwich, John Julius

Publisher

[Harlow] Longmans, [1970]

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571260447

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, European History, Humanities