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No doubt, Stanton’s work is noteworthy and valid. He has a good command of the primary sources (although sometime he stretches them too far), and has had the merit of using the naval thread to weave the tapestry of the political history of the Normans, the kingdom of Sicily and Western Mediterranean in a clear and suggestive way. There is still a lot of work to be done on the maritime history of the Middle Ages, but Stanton’s is a meaningful point on the road. Appartiene alle SerieWarfare in History (2011)
The formidable force of the Normans at sea has been frequently overlooked. This volume shows their dominance over the Mediterranean, and its far-reaching effects. The rise of Norman naval power in the central Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries prompted a seminal shift in the balance of power on the sea. Drawing from Latin, Greek, Jewish and Arabic sources, this book details how the House of Hauteville, particularly under Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, used sea power to accomplish what the Papacy, the German Empire and the Eastern Empire could not: the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily from Islam. The subsequent establishment of an aggressive naval presence on Sicily, first by Roger de Hauteville and then by his son Roger II, effectively wrested control of the central Mediterranean from Byzantine and Muslim maritime hegemony, opening the sea to east-west shipping. The author goes on to describe how this development, in turn, emboldened the West Italian maritime republics, principally Genoa and Pisa, to expand eastward in conjunction with the Crusades. It was, quite literally, a sea change, ushering in a new period of western maritime ascendancy which has persisted into the modern era. Charles D. Stanton gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The narrative bits, which combine readability with clarity and a proper delineation between what's attested and what's inference or conjecture, are very good, as is the appendix. When Stanton stands back and looks at the big picture, he's got a tendency to wax grandiloquent about Historical Significance, which I appreciate less. But that's easy to forgive him; on balance the book is easily to be recommended.