By Julie Taylor

Muslims in Medieval Italy: The Colony at Lucera is the background of a Muslim colony within the southern Italian urban of Lucera through the center a long time. writer Julie Taylor attracts on an enormous array of fundamental resources, unpublished manuscripts, and archeological information to supply an in depth account of the lives of Muslims opposed to the backdrop of the social and political complexities of medieval Lucera. Taylor's paintings illuminates the criminal and social prestige of Muslims in Christendom and the contributions made by means of Muslims to the economic system and security of the dominion of Sicily, and it additionally yields noteworthy insights into Muslim-Christian kin. Muslims in Medieval Italy is a completely researched and soaking up account.

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