Table of Contents:
  • Part I : urban government and communal independence
  • Before 1085 : the arrival of the Normans
  • The fragmentation of power (1085-1127)
  • Civil war and unification (1127-1139)
  • The Norman kingdom of Sicily (1139-1189)
  • From the Normans to the Staufen (1189-1220)
  • Part II : urban society : community, identity and wealth
  • Populations, cultural identity and citizenship
  • The community
  • The Church, bishop and civic identity
  • The urban economy.