Hiroshi Takayama, professor of history at the University of Tokyo, received his Ph.D. from Yale University with the R. Lopez Memorial Prize in 1990. While comparing medieval polities in Europe, he has been studying cross-cultural contacts in the Mediterranean area, focusing on medieval Sicily, a crossroads of Latin, Greek, and Islamic cultures. He has sole-authored ten books, co-edited eight books, and published about forty articles. He has received the Suntory Award, Collegium Mediterranistarum Award, Premio Marco Polo, and Medal with Purple Ribbon. He has served as an editorial board member of scholarly journals and book series in the UK, US, Italy, Netherlands, and Japan. He is President of the Historical Society of Japan (2016-) and President of the Japan Society for Medieval European Studies (2015-).

This book is a collection of milestone articles of a leading scholar in the study of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily, one of the most fascinating but neglected kingdoms in the medieval world.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

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Part I Administrative Organizations and Officials

1. The Financial and Administrative Organization of the Norman Kingdom

of Sicily

2 Familiares Regis and the Royal Inner Council in Twelfth-Century Sicily

3 The Great Administrative Officials of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily

4 Amiratus in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily: A Leading Office of Arabic

Origin in the Royal Administration

5 The Administrative Organization of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily

Part II Power and Governance

6 The Administration of Roger I: Foundation of the Norman

Administrative System

7 Central Power and Multi-Cultural Elements at the Norman Court of Sicily

8 Confrontation of Powers in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily: Kings, Nobles, Bureaucrats, and Cities

9 Law and Monarchy in the South

Part III Religions and Cross-Cultural Contacts

10 Religious Tolerance in Norman Sicily? The Case of Muslims

11 Frederick II's Crusade: An Example of Christian-Muslim Diplomacy

12 Migrations in the Mediterranean Area and the Far East: Medieval Sicily

and Japan

13 Classification of Villeins in Medieval Sicily

Appendix I Islamic Sicily

1 The Aghlabid Governors in Sicily: 827-909

2 The Fatimid and Kalbite Governors in Sicily: 909-1044

Appendix II Medieval France

1 Kingdom and States in Medieval France

2 The Local Administrative System of France under Philip IV (1285-1314),

Baillis and Seneschals

Appendix III Book Reviews

1. Graham A. Loud, Church and Society of the Principality of Capua 1058-

1197 (Oxford, 1985)

2 Joanna H. Drell, Kinship and Conquest. Family Strategies in the Principality

of Salerno during the Norman Period, 1077-1194 (Ithaca, NY, 2002)

3 Alex Metcalfe, The Muslims of Medieval Italy (Edinburgh, 2009)

Bibliography

Index