The Jews in Sicily. by Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019

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The decline and fall of medieval Sicily : politics, religion, and economy in the reign of Frederick III, 1296-1337 / by Backman, Clifford R.

Table of Contents: “…In the margins: slaves, pirates, and women -- Table 1: Judices of Palermo -- Table 2: Juriste and xurterii of Palermo -- Table 3: Judices of Agrigento, Catania, Messina, Polizzi -- Table 4: Feudal dues.…”
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Between Scylla and Charybdis : the Jews in Sicily / by Simonsohn, Shlomo, 1923-2019

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Chapter 1: From Rome to Spain; Chapter 2: The First Millennium; Chapter 3: Jewish Settlements (1); Map 1: Jewish Sicily until 1300; Chapter 4: From Roman Citizens to Servants of the Royal Treasury; Chapter 5: The Jewish Community (1); Chapter 6: Scholars and Poets; Chapter 7: Merchants, Artisans and Others; Chapter 8: Between Scylla and Charybdis; Chapter 9: The King's Jews; Chapter 10: Taxation and Imposts; Chapter 11: Jewish Settlements (2); Map 2: Jewish Sicily in the 14th and 15th Centuries; Map 3: Catania: The Jewish Quarter; Map 4: Messina: The Jewish Quarter.…”
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Negotiating multicultural Europe : borders, networks, neighbourhoods /

Table of Contents: “…: the Intercultural Week, mental borders and multiple identities in the German town of Bayreuth / Hauke Dorsch -- Immigrants and natives : ways of constructing new neighbourhoods in Catania, Sicily / Orazio Licciardello, Daniela Damigella -- Networks and 'safe spaces' of Black European women in Germany and Austria / Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck -- Bordering, de-bordering, cross-bordering : a conclusion / Heidi Armbruster.…”

Other combatants, other fronts : competing histories of the First World War /

Table of Contents: “…Kitchen, Alisa Miller and Laura Rowe -- From peacetime to wartime : the Sicilian province of Catania and Italian intervention in the Great War, June 1914 - September 1915 / Sean Brady -- 'The aims of science are the antithesis to those of war' : academic scientists at war in Britain and France, 1914-18 / Tomás Irish -- 'Faithful unto death' : commemorating Jack Cornwell's service in the Battle of Jutland / Mary Conley -- 'A wonderful something' : the Netherlands and the war in 1914 / Conny Kristel -- Government by committee : Dutch economic neutrality and the First World War / Samuël Kruizinga -- La Suisse pendant la Grande Guerre, 'front de la dissidence' et plate-forme d'éxchanges franco-allemands / Landry Charrier ; English translation, Michael P.M. …”

Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily : Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam. by Metcalfe, Dr Alexander

Table of Contents: “…Defining the margins of the Arabic-speaking communitiesDemographic mobility: the villeins around Cefalù; Naming and identity; Signs of social integration among villeins: Catania and Aci in 1095; Arabic and Greek names from Nicótera in 1093; Patti: 'Saracens', 'Greeks', and 'men of the Latin tongue'; The extent of local variation: an early register from western Sicily; Onomastic data as evidence for social change; Abandoning Arabic names: the Christians of Collesano; Assessing names of mixed origin; Non-Arabic names from the Monreale villeins in 1178; The Christians of Corleone.…”
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