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| | Hist312: Sicily and the Medieval Mediterranean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | In addition, it provides a comprehensive context for this by covering the series of fundamental shifts in social and political influence from the Islamic period of the tenth century until the rule of Frederick II in the mid-thirteenth. |
 | | Prescribed texts include, among others, extracts from Ibn Hawqal, al-Muqaddasi, Amatus of Montecassino, Malaterra, 'Hugo Falcandus', al-Idrisi, Ibn Jubayr and Ibn al-Athir as well as charters translated from Arabic, Latin and Greek. |
 | | The course will have particular appeal to those who have already experienced Mediterranean history, for example, those who have been successful with HIST219 and/or HIST262. |
| www.lancs.ac.uk /users/history/undergrad/hist312.htm (359 words) |
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