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The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History

✍ Scribed by Karla Mallette

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Leaves
220
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

In The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250, Karla Mallette writes the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The study contains an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian.

In The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250, Karla Mallette writes the first literary history of the Kingdom of Sicily in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The study contains an extensive selection of poems and documents translated from the Arabic, Latin, Old French, and Italian.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1. Toward a Literary History of the Kingdom of Sicily
2. An Archeology of the Sicilian Park
3. Frederick II and the Genesis of a Sicilian Romance Culture
4. Rereading Le Origini: Sicilian Romance Poetry and the Language of Natural Philosphy
5. Beyond Le Origini: Sicilian Romance Poetry in a Feminine Voice
6. Vernacularity and Sicilian Culture
Texts in Translation
From the Arabic
From the Latin
From the Old French
From the Sicilian
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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