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This is the "position" of the dissertation, i.e. a resumé, which was published in 2000.
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The disparity of extant evidence between the late Islamic and the Norman periods is so stark it is difficult to draw conclusions that are not in some way e silentio. What we do know is that Muslim Sicily’s administration was a late developer whose existence was cut short by civil strife and war – in itself, sufficiently destructive to account for extreme document loss. But what of document production and conservation? Here, later practices from the Arab-Norman chancery suggest that record keeping did not always extend to holding verbatim copies of grants made. Moreover, in the countryside,...
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THE SETTING Among the impressions Marshal Marmont, Napoleon’s general and duke of Ragusa, recorded on the city he had seized, was that very old, rich and powerful nobility ruled in Dubrovnik, who, in spite of their arrogance and austerity in governing, were generally held to be the paragon. What remained for the Ragusan commoners to look up to at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the time of the French occupation and the fall of the Republic (1808), was but a vague trace of the once magnificent glory. Though long gone, this glory of the nobility still permeated the entire community....
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This article aims to cast more light on the relatively under-researched subject of warfare in late Byzantine and Frankish Greece by analysing the descriptions of military operations between the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader Principality of Achaia in Morea (the Peloponnese) in 1264, especially the battle of Makry-Plagi. Moreover, it will demonstrate that, although relations between the Latins, Byzantines, and even the Turks were generally hostile at this time, these groups could co-operate to a surprising extent, and even showed a readiness for peaceful co-existence.
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