Mallette, Karla, ed., The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press)
Text name(s): In Youth, the Soul Attains its Desire; Because of long-lasting grief; Oh, Garden of Love; You Tortured me with the Two Elements; Oh, Blonde Tribe, My Blood is on your Hands; My tears Expose my Love; Pass Round the Golden Carnelian-Red; The Radiant Moon has been Extinguished; Maravigliosamente; Amor non vole; Or come pote si gran donna intrare; a l'aire claro o vista ploggia dare; Dolze meo Drudo; Oi lassa 'namorata
Number of pages of primary source text: 56
Author(s):
- Mazzeo di Ricco
- Innocent IV
- Jubayr, Ibn
- Ibn Hamdis
- Ibn Bashrun
- Henricus Aristippus
- Guido delle Colonne
- Iacopo da Lentini
- Buthayri, Al-
- Atrabanishi, Al-
- Idrisi, Al-
- Abu Musa al-Ash-ari
- Abu Hafs 'Umar
- Abu al-Daw'
- Rinaldo d'Aquino
- Peter of Eboli
- Frederick II
Dates: 1100 - 1250
Archival Reference:
Original Language(s):
- French - Old French
- Arabic
- Latin
- Sicilian
Translation:
- Translated into English.
Translation Comments:
Geopolitical Region(s):
- Italy
- Sicily
County/Region:
Record Types:
- Literature - Prose
- Literature - Verse
Subject Headings:
- Government
- Family / Children
- Education / Universities
- Diplomacy
- Conversion
- Clergy - Priests, Bishops, Canons
- Clergy - Monks, Nuns, Friars
- Architecture and Buildings
- Agriculture
- Maritime
- Material Culture: Food, Clothing, Household
- Muslims / Islam
- Nobility / Gentry
- Papacy
- Religion - Institutional Church
- Royalty / Monarchs
- Towns / Cities
- Travel / Pilgrimage
- War - Military History
- Women / Gender
Apparatus:
- Index
- Bibliography
- Introduction
Comments:
This volume is the first literal history of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Instead of treating each linguistic group on the island separately, as many previous historians have done, Mallette considers the culture of the island as a whole providing translations of a range of Arabic, Latin, French and Sicilian literary texts.
Introduction Summary:
The introduction is an in depth analysis of the literary culture in twelfth and thirteenth-century Sicily.
Cataloger: SES
