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  Roger of Salerno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger of Salerno or Roger of the Principate (died June 28, 1119) was regent of the Principality of Antioch from 1112 to 1119.
Roger defeated Bursuq in 1114 at the Battle of Sarmin, and in 1115 at the Battle of Tell Danith.
Roger's reign was chronicled by his chancellor Walter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_of_Salerno   (277 words)

  
 Battle of Ager Sanguinis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, Roger of Salerno, who was ruling Antioch as regent for Bohemund II, did not take advantage of Ridwan's death; likewise, Baldwin II, count of Edessa, and Pons, count of Tripoli, looked after their own interests and did not ally with Roger against Aleppo.
Roger camped in the pass of Sarmada, while Ilghazi besieged the fort of al-Atharib.
During the fighting, Roger was killed by a sword in the face at the foot of the great jewelled cross which had served as his standard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Ager_Sanguinis   (791 words)

  
 Salerno
At the death of Guiscard his states were divided; Salerno was inherited by Roger, who was succeeded (1111) by his son William; at the latter's death Salerno gave itself to Roger II of Sicily (1127), from whom it was taken by the Emperor Lothair (1137), although the latter was unable to hold it.
The heirs of the first princes of the House of Anjou bore the title of Prince of Salerno; John II invested with it Girolamo Colanna, nephew of Martin V. Charles V suppressed the principality, but the province continued to be called Principality of Salerno.
The medical school of Salerno was famous in medieval history; it was founded neither by Charles the Great nor by the Arabs, the city never having been under the domination of either.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/salerno.html   (1421 words)

  
 SUNY Press :: Landscapes of Abandonment
Using social theory and cultural analysis, Roger A. Salerno explores the relationship of abandonment to the construction of contemporary capitalistic cultures.
Salerno surveys important contributions of writers, artists, philosophers, and social scientists and how their work expresses this sense of modern abandonment.
Roger A. Salerno is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pace University.
www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=60809   (308 words)

  
 Ikhwan as-Safa' 7-9
Roger of Salerno, son of Richard of the Principate and Lord of Acre is raised to be Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre, on condition that he acknowledge the young Bohemond II as his heir.
Roger is obviously chuffed to become the foremost soldier of Christendom, with the rank of Prince to boot.
Roger's Advocacy is beset by problems, the chief of which is trying to enforce some sort of rule of law throughout the land.
www.ismaili.net /mirrors/Ikhwan_01/ikhc.html   (3644 words)

  
 Funerals for the Norman kings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In this, Roger seems to be imitating the pope, whose legate he also happened to be for his conquest of Sicily.
Roger I, the conqueror of Sicily, had preferred burial in an abbey founded with the assistance of the Norman abbot Robert of Grandmesnil.
Roger II, crowned king of Sicily in 1130, and his successors had to choose a site on the island worthy of the new dynasty.
www.mondes-normands.caen.fr /angleterre/cultures/IT/culture7_3.htm   (232 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Roger Scruton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Professor Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is a leading British academic philosopher, and founder of Claridge Press.
Scruton was educated at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and Jesus College, Cambridge before researching and then lecturing in philosophy at Birkbeck College, London.
Roger Scruton's letter of defence, as published by The Guardian
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Roger_Scruton   (441 words)

  
 History of Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Roger took very much at heart his title and started a systematic fight against the Muslim of Sicily, and it took him about 19 years to complete the geographic and demographic conquest of that land, which was lived in by Greeks, Moors, French, Latins, and, of course, Sicilians.
The pope consented and Roger was crowned in the court of Palermo, on the 25 of December, in a never seen lavish, official gala ceremony, as king of Sicily.
Roger II had this ceremony done on the 25 of December, to drive in the mind of his subjects his divine right to the Kingship, he had a mosaic done in the church of the Martorana in Palermo, where he is crowned king by Jesus Christ Himself.
home.att.net /~ilsiciliano/page28_history_of_sicily.htm   (17748 words)

  
 Medieval Medicine
Salerno was the first modern medical school, Almum et Hippocraticum Medicorum Collegium, founded in the 9th century in southern Italy, formally organized in the 10th century and reached its peak at the end of the 12th century.
Montpellier and Salerno thus came to be known as the twin pillars of medical education, THE places to study medicine.
One, Ricardus Anglicus, shows the influence of both Salerno and Montpellier in his 12th or 13th century work Micrologus, which was intended to be a brief manual of all available medical knowledge.
www.strangelove.net /~kieser/Medieval/medicine.html   (2978 words)

  
 Roger II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
c.1095–1154, count (1101–30) and first king (1130–54) of Sicily, son and successor of Roger I. He conquered (1127) Apulia and Salerno and sided with the antipope Anacletus II against Pope Innocent II.
Roger also conquered the coast of Africa from Tunis to Tripoli.
Roger was succeeded by his son, William I. See E. Curtis, Roger of Sicily (1912, repr.
www.bartleby.com /65/ro/Roger2.html   (204 words)

  
 Europe's 12th-Century Development by Sanderson Beck
Roger founded the board of Exchequer to audit the accounts of sheriffs and supervise the royal revenues.
Innocent II excommunicated Roger and led forces himself; but the Pope was defeated and captured, and he had to recognize the kneeling Roger to gain release.
Roger countered by sending subsidies to Henry the Proud's brother Welf to support German revolts, and he tried to head off a war with the German and Byzantine empires by making an alliance with France.
www.san.beck.org /AB20-Europe12thCentury.html   (23248 words)

  
 Salerno's, sabrina salerno nude, salerno duane summit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Salerno's man tells him this is the only room that is finished.
Salerno's is located on Weber Road, 1/2 block north of Rt.
Salerno's mantells him that it's locked for his own protection because the floors are.
www.information-science.org /salerno/salerno's.html   (842 words)

  
 Deno Geanakoplos - Prologue: the two worlds of Christendom - Medicine
The revival of western medicine began in the late tenth or early eleventh century at the medical school of Salerno in southern Italy, where the traditions of Latin, Greco Byzantine, Arabic, and Jewish medicine met and were blended.
It is already known for example that a late twelfth century Latin physician at the same medical school, Roger of Salerno, was influenced by the treatises of the Byzantine doctors Aetius and Alexander of Tralles of the sixth century, and Paul of Aegina of the seventh.
Kristeller, 'Ancient Philosophy at Salerno in the Twelfth Century' (unpublished paper) where it is shown that in the eleventh century a certain Bartholomaeus knew Greek there.
www.myriobiblos.gr /texts/english/geanakoplos_twoworlds_5.html   (958 words)

  
 Kipling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Roger of Salerno had been giving them a good deal of it, at dinner.
Roger of Salerno was quite quiet till they regained the dining-room, where the fire had been comforted and the dates, raisins, ginger, figs, and cinnamon-scented sweetmeats set out, with the choicer wines, on the after-table.
Roger of Salerno identified the herbs and spoke largely of their virtues.
etech.northern.edu /blanchak/phil270/kipling.htm   (5330 words)

  
 Around Naples Encyclopedia 24
Her native Lombard Duchy of Salerno was by 1050 already in trouble, at least potentially.
When the time came, as it had to, for Robert of Hauteville to demand the surrender of Salerno, the last remaining large Lombard Duchy in the South, it was no doubt his wife who kept him from simply attacking her native city outright.
She was a lifelong friend of the archbishop of Salerno, who was a close friend of Pope Gregory.
faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~jmatthew/naples/blog24.html   (11913 words)

  
 Beyond the Enlightenment — www.greenwood.com
Roger Salerno's Beyond the Enlightenment is clearly an unusual book among the various social theory texts available on the current market.
It might also be a handy reference for professors who want to spice up their lectures with biographical material on a wide range of social theorists.
Salerno has provided a book that is a little offbeat, but not so revolutionary that professors will have difficulty incorporating it with standard teaching practices in social theory courses.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/B7725.aspx   (304 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Battle of Azaz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Joscelin I of Edessa had captured Azaz in northern Syria from the atabeg of Aleppo in 1118.
The next year the Crusaders under Roger of Salerno were severely defeated at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis, and Baldwin II of Jerusalem was captured while patrolling in Edessa in 1123.
In 1124 Baldwin II was released, and almost immediately he began to besiege Aleppo in 1125.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Azaz   (375 words)

  
 CHRONO-FILE for BIBLICAL and EARLY CULTURES Section-7a   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In 1119, the crusader Principality of Antioch was invaded, and Baldwin hurried north with the army of Jerusalem.
Roger of Salerno, prince of Antioch, would not wait for Baldwin's reinforcements, and the Antiochene army was destroyed in a battle the crusaders came to call Ager Sanguinis (the Field of Blood).
He accompanied Innocent to Rome, successfully resisting the proposal to reopen negotiations with Anacletus, who held the castle of Sant'Angelo and, with the support of Roger II of Sicily, was too strong to be subdued by force.
hometown.aol.com /eilatlog/chronofile/timeculture_S_07a.html   (6599 words)

  
 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
A sought-after artist who has performed with many of the world's greatest conductors and orchestras and at major international festivals, she has played at the White House in a command performance for the Arts & Humanities Awards.
She has also collaborated with such artists as Mandy Patinkin, Joe Jackson, Judy Blazer, Janice Siegel, the Assad brothers, Mark O'Connor and Roger Kellaway.
Born in Rome, Nadja emigrated to the Unites States at the age of eight to study at The Curtis Institute of Music and later studied with Dorothy DeLay at The Julliard School.
www.nadjasalernosonnenberg.com /bio.html   (351 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lynda Salerno, who has worked with several scholar-athlete games over the past four years, will return to Rhode Island to coordinate the Games dance program.
Salerno graduated from Roger Williams University and currently works on the faculty at London’s BLA Theater.
With her expertise in several forms of dance, including ballet, jazz and contemporary, she will lead the WSAG dance troupe through rehearsals and workshops.
www.internationalsport.com /sa_2001/program_releases.cfm?id=17   (422 words)

  
 Kipling and Medicine - Doctors in the stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Roger of Salerno (c.1180) Taught surgery at the medical school of Salerno in southern Italy, probably the most important centre of medical learning in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, with great influence throughout Europe.
Roger of Salerno is remembered for his famous textbook Chirurgia.
Salernian anatomy was derived from Galen and pigs were used for dissection as it was thought that their anatomy most closely resembled humans’.
www.kipling.org.uk /rg_med_doctors2_p.htm   (2685 words)

  
 COMBINEDOPS SMRS.htm
She departed New York for the Mediterranean on 28/4/43, ultimately taking part in the landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Normandy and Malaya.
She served in the Mediterranean from June 1943 to early 1944 as part of the 3rd LST(2) Flotilla under the command of Flotilla Officer Acting Commander D. Hore-Lacey R.N. Her sister ships of the 3rd at that time were 322, 324, 367, 410, 412, 417, 419, 420, 423, 426, 428 and 430.
'Roger Amber' beach viewed from the bows of 427.
www.combinedops.com /LST(2)427.htm   (1381 words)

  
 The Eye of Allah
Some weeks later, he and Thomas are invited to dinner with the Abbot, the other guests being the scientist Friar Roger Bacon and the surgeon Roger of Salerno, who has been consulted by the Abbot’s Lady and has diagnosed cancer.
Osler had been curator of the Bodleian Library; at his death in 1919 he would bequeath to the library several mediaeval manuscripts, including one by Roger of Salerno [Lycett, p.
He could also have seen a microscope resembling the one described in the story, either in the Orrery collection at Christchurch College, or at the Museum of the History of Science, to which the collection was presented when the Museum opened in May 1925.
www.kipling.org.uk /kiplingsociety/rg_eyeallah1.htm   (2270 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: A Sourcebook in Medieval Science by Edward Grant
Roger Bacon: The Speed of Propagation of Light or Species
Roger Bacon: The Lens as the Sensitive Organ of the Eye
Anatomical Demonstration at Salerno: The Anatomy of the Pig
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/GRASOU.html?show=contents   (1026 words)

  
 Kids Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He postulated that the maggots had entered the carious lesion when the owner of the tooth ate the cheese, for, as he said, he had extracted maggots from the damaged teeth of his own wife after she had partaken of infested cheese."
Early surgeons Roger of Salerno (12th century) and Roland of Parma (13th century) recommended filling carious teeth with raven manure.
According to Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun, a Spanish monk who wrote about dental practices in 16th century Mexico, the Aztecs filled cavities with a mixture of snail shells, sea salt and an herb called tlalcacaoatl.
www.deltadentalnj.com /kids_club/trivia_0903.shtml   (270 words)

  
 Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
In matters of health, abbeys and monasteries were institutions where great care was taken, although the monks were unaware of the scientific theories explaining the cause of disease and physical injury, and the measures needed for cure or relief.
The Medieval view was based on the classical treatises of men like Roger of Salerno and Gilbertus Anglicus, whose books have been found in monastic librar ies.
They believed that the human body contained four humours, yellow bile, blood, phlegm and fl bile, and that an excess of any one of these caused ill-health.
www.camelotintl.com /heritage/historichouses/south_east/bealieu/bumedic.html   (653 words)

  
 Dyson College of Arts and Sciences:
Roger Salerno is an urban sociologist with training and extensive experience in the area of urban planning.
He has served as an environmental planner and has worked with grass-roots community organizations in East Harlem in helping people to define and address pressing social problems.
His latest book, LANDSCAPES OF ABANDONMENT will be released early next year.
www.pace.edu /dyson/criminaljust/rsalerno.html   (123 words)

  
 The Legend of 1900
The song "Lost Boys Calling" was a collaboration between Roger Waters and film soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone.
That same year he made a short film entitled Il Carretto (The Wagon) which brought him to the attention of RAI television, with which he began a close collaboration in 1979.
In 1999, Roger's and Edward's names are written explicit on the cover of all releases.
www.rogerwaters.org /24/legend1900rev.html   (3893 words)

  
 Troina, Italy
In 876 the Saracens took Troina; in 1062 it was taken back by the Norman Roger I. He first chose Troina as his residence and later it became a setting-out point for many Norman conquering expeditions.
In 1088 Roger I and Pope Urban II met here; at their second meeting ten years later in Salerno Count Roger was recognized as an apostolic legate.
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www.planetware.com /italy/troina-i-si-tr.htm   (130 words)

  
 Figures
An early illustrated work dealing with the school of Salerno.
An illustrated leaf from an important early manuscript on the works of Roger of Salerno.
Illustrated here are some early surgical treatments, including some neurosurgical and spine treatments.
www.medscape.com /content/2004/00/46/84/468452/468452_fig.html   (477 words)

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