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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (Canto Classics)
The Sicilian Vespers A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century - Canto Classics
Author: Steven Runciman
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big massacre: the revolt of the long-subjugated Sicilians might seem just another resistance movement....  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107604742
ISBN-10: 1107604745
Publication Date: 4/30/2012
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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