Sicily: Culture and Conquest (The British Museum, April 21–August 14, 2016)

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/sicily/events.aspx

Sicily has been shaped by waves of conquest and settlement by different peoples over 4,000 years. Since the 8th century BC, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans

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Inquisition of the divine Liturgies in an euchologion of Carbone

I would like to announce here a new publication about an euchologion of Carbone, Basilicata (Vat. grec. 2005). Bizzare changes within the formularies of the divine liturgies had been so far regarded by André Jacob as an adaption to Latinised customs

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Italian and English crash course into Italonorman history

Segue l'introduzione nella vita di Costanza Altavilla, regina di Sicilia e madre di Federico II:

http://regineditalia.net/costanza_app/

Listen to an all round introduction into the life of Constance of Sicily and mother of Frederick II:

http://reginedit

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Walter Berschin: From the Middle of the Eleven Century to the Latin Conquest of Constantinople

From the Middle of the Eleven Century to the Latin Conquest of Constantinople

From: Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages.
From Jerome to Nicholas of Cusa.
Translated by Jerold C. Frakes.
Revised and expanded edition.
The Catholic University of Amer

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