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John Aspinwall
Lancaster University, History, Department Member
- Medieval History, Medieval Sicily, Sicily, Islamic and Norman Sicily, Norman Sicily, Crusades, and 28 moreNormans in Southern Italy, Anglo-Norman history, History, Normans, Norman Italy, Anglo Norman and Angevin England, Storia Dei Normanni, Medieval Studies, Early Medieval History, Historiography, History of Historiography, Medieval Church History, The Norman Conquest, Mediterranean Studies, History of the Mediterranean, Mediterranean, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Italy, Early Modern Italy, Medieval Rome, Archaeology of Southern Italy, History of Southern Italy, Greek Colonies In Southern Italy, North Africa Studies, Early Medieval North Africa, History of Crusades, Islamic Sicily, and Palermoedit
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Research Interests: Medieval History, Material Culture Studies, Historiography, Mediterranean Studies, Kingship (Medieval History), and 10 moreIslamic History and Muslim Civilization, Islamic and Norman Sicily, Sicily, Medieval Rome, Papal History, Normans in Southern Italy, Conquest, Storia di Palermo, Roger II of Sicily, and Abbazia di Montecassino
Research Interests: Multiculturalism, Medieval History, Material Culture Studies, Medieval Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and 14 moreHistoriography, Mediterranean Studies, Muslims in Europe, History of the Mediterranean, Norman Sicily, Normans, Orientalism, Power relations, Normans in Southern Italy, Palermo, Contested History, Medieval Southern Italy and Sicily, Italian Southern Question, and Muslim Sicily
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The Historia Sicula is one of a handful of narratives that trace the Normans’ rise to power in south Italy during the 11th century and their subsequent conquest of Sicily from the Muslims. The majority of the text appears to offer a... more
The Historia Sicula is one of a handful of narratives that trace the Normans’ rise to power in south Italy during the 11th century and their subsequent conquest of Sicily from the Muslims. The majority of the text appears to offer a mid-12th-century perspective on events of the 1000s. Until the early 1900s, it was quite usual to draw on the Historia Sicula for its conquest narrative. Recently, however, it has fallen from academic favour, not least as it covers many of the same episodes as Geoffrey Malaterra’s longer De rebus gestis. The modern edition is still that of Giovanni Battista Caruso from 1723. As such, the Historia Sicula has slipped between the cracks of current debate: undervalued in terms of historiography, it has also been overlooked for what it can say of the gens Normannorum, and the rise and fall of ‘Normanness’ in the southern Mediterranean.
Research Interests: Religion, Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, Medieval History, Crusades, and 14 moreOnomastics, Identity (Culture), Norman Sicily, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, Islamic and Norman Sicily, Anglo-Norman history, Medieval Palermo, Normans in Southern Italy, Storia Dei Normanni, Roger II, Sizilien, Ruggero II, Gaufredus Malaterra, and Normannen
Research Interests: Multiculturalism, Medieval Studies, Mediterranean Studies, Diplomatics (Medieval), Norman Sicily, and 12 moreCharters and Paleography, Islamic History and Muslim Civilization, Catania, Monastic charters and cartularies, Storia Dei Normanni, Storia urbanistica di Catania, The Norman Conquest, Muslim Sicily, Sizilien, Ruggero Gran Conte, Gaufredus Malaterra, and Normannen
"After discovering a shared mutual admiration for Airey Neave, we decided to set out with some local students and recreate the final leg of the former prisoner of war’s daring escape from the Nazis"
Research Interests: Cultural History, Comparative Politics, German History, History and Memory, British Politics, and 14 moreHistory Of London, Commemoration and Memory, Prisoners of War, World War II, Nazi Germany, British Conservatism/Conservative Party since 1945, Imprisonment, Switzerland, Netherlands, Great Britain, Westminster, Bodenseeregion, Colditz, and airey neave
The Norman invasion of Muslim Sicily catalysed the formation of a single state that, at its peak, would come to comprise most of Italy to the south of Rome, the islands of Sicily and Malta and a swathe of North Africa centered around the... more
The Norman invasion of Muslim Sicily catalysed the formation of a single state that, at its peak, would come to comprise most of Italy to the south of Rome, the islands of Sicily and Malta and a swathe of North Africa centered around the city of Mahdiyya. From here, irreversible political, religious and cultural frontiers came to form that would forge new states and identities, and divide Christian Europe from Muslim Africa. However, even though only a handful of medieval sources have survived to reconstruct this seminal period, modern scholarship has almost entirely overlooked an anonymous chronicle – the Cronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii Comitis Mileti, popularly termed the Historia Sicula, or the Anonymous Vaticanus. Tracing the Norman rise to power in southern Italy and their conquest of Sicily from the Muslims, the source offers new interpretations of events whilst also challenging many long-held historiographical assumptions.
My PhD thesis proposes a new critical edition of the text alongside a comprehensive textual and historiographical analysis.
My PhD thesis proposes a new critical edition of the text alongside a comprehensive textual and historiographical analysis.
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 2018
https://www.mag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/kolloquium/kolloquium_alt/index.html
https://www.mag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/kolloquium/kolloquium_alt/index.html
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St Andrews SAIMS Graduate conference June 2019
https://standrewsschoolofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/2019-saims-graduate-conference/
https://standrewsschoolofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/06/20/2019-saims-graduate-conference/
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Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, the University of Leeds. July 2018.
Research Interests: Translation Studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Historiography, Manuscript Studies, and 10 morePaleography, History of Collections, Renaissance Rome, Codicology of medieval manuscripts, The Kingdom of Naples, Salerno, Normans in Southern Italy, Transmission and Distribution, Contested Heritage, and Roger II
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The Department of History at Lancaster University will be sponsoring a number of sessions at the forthcoming Leeds International Medieval Congress (2–5 July 2018). These will be co-ordinated by myself and my doctoral student, John... more
The Department of History at Lancaster University will be sponsoring a number of sessions at the forthcoming Leeds International Medieval Congress (2–5 July 2018). These will be co-ordinated by myself and my doctoral student, John Aspinwall.
The congress theme will be memory, and we are particularly interested to hear from scholars wishing to contribute 20-minute papers on this theme with particular reference to the Norman Conquest of Sicily.
Abstracts for papers should be sent to John Aspinwall at j.aspinwall@lancs.ac.uk
The deadline for abstracts to be sent to us is 1 September 2017. A selection of papers will be made on the basis of the abstracts submitted. Applicants will be notified in early September.
We look forward to hearing from you!
The congress theme will be memory, and we are particularly interested to hear from scholars wishing to contribute 20-minute papers on this theme with particular reference to the Norman Conquest of Sicily.
Abstracts for papers should be sent to John Aspinwall at j.aspinwall@lancs.ac.uk
The deadline for abstracts to be sent to us is 1 September 2017. A selection of papers will be made on the basis of the abstracts submitted. Applicants will be notified in early September.
We look forward to hearing from you!