Graham A Loud
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham A Loud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham A |
| FAMILY NAME | Loud |
| SIGNATURE | LOUD G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy
The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th-12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this volume. Norman relations with the Byzantine world are also an important topic. Several studies directly examine questions of continuity and change, both with regard to lay society and in a section devoted to the Church; others approach the subject more obliquely, through the analysis of contempo…
The 'Gens Normannorum' - Myth or Reality?
Power and Authority, A Trial of Two Swords
Bernardo Maragone, Gesta Triumphalia per Pisanos Facta
La Gesta Triumphalia est un récit strictement contemporain de l’histoire maritime de Pise au cours des vingt années précédant sa date de rédaction, probablement fin 1119 ou début 1120. Il s’agit d’un texte court d’environ 3 000 mots, dont la majorité est consacrée à l’expédition pisane et catalane réussie contre les îles Baléares en 1118-1119. Il couvre à peu près le même sujet qu’un autre texte pisan contemporain en vers, le Liber Maiorichinus, …
Sarah Davis-Secord. Where Three Worlds Met
To discuss the significance of Sicily in the Mediterranean world from the seventh through to the late twelfth century is an ambitious undertaking. To do so successfully requires wide reading, considerable linguistic skills, and knowledge of several different historical traditions. To undertake this in about 250 pages of text also requires a talent for generalization (in the best sense), compression, and interpretation. Sarah Davis-Secord’s Where …
Frederick Barbarossa
Biographies of the famous medieval emperor seem to be like buses. One waits a very long time for one to appear, and then two come in relatively quick succession. Knut Görich published the first full scholarly biography in German for many years in 2011, and now John Freed has produced an equally massive study in English. This will surely become the standard work on this important reign for anglophone readers, superseding the 1969 book of Peter Mun…
Jean Dunbabin. The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305
Toward the beginning of this learned and stimulating book, Jean Dunbabin attempts to disarm the reader with a modest disclaimer, apologizing that her “subject is so diffuse, a gathering together of bits and pieces from a variety of fields” (p. 9). In fact, this is a thoughtful and sophisticated comparative study of the links between the kingdoms of Sicily and France in the forty years after Charles of Anjou conquered the regno in 1266. For a gene…
Southern Italy and the Eastern and Western empires, c .900–1050
The Byzantine Empire ruled parts of southern Italy throughout the early Middle Ages, but this region was usually, and inevitably, quite low on the imperial government's scale of priorities. This situation changed during the mid-tenth century, and one factor causing this was the arrival in Italy of the Ottonian rulers of Germany (emperors after 962), who posed both an ideological and a military threat to Byzantine rule. Otto I and his son were far…
Rome across Time and Space
Europa in costruzione
La Reforma gregoriana y su proteccion en la cristiandad occidental (Siglos XI-XII)
The thirteen essays in this volume are, like many conference proceedings, somewhat mixed, but there are a number of substantial and interesting contributions (Some indeed are so substantial that they cannot have been given as papers at the conference in their current form). Nine of the essays are in Spanish, two in French and two in Italian. Pride of place must surely be given to a brilliant study by Dominique Iogna Prat examining the representat…
Varieties of Monastic Discipline in Southern Italy During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
The conquest of southern Italy by the Normans during the eleventh century incorporated what had hitherto been a peripheral region more fully within the mainstream of Western Europe. However, notwithstanding this, in a number of respects the development of the Church in Norman Italy followed its own idiosyncratic pattern, rather different from the trends that prevailed in other parts of contemporary Latin Christendom. This distinctive evolution ca…
Monastic Miracles in Southern Italy, c.1040–1140
Almighty God sometimes shows his miracles not only in great things but also in minor matters, so that the faith of believers shall be more and more increased and thus it causes all creatures to break out in praise of their Creator, since he is seen to have a care with fatherly piety in all those things that are granted to human endeavour
The monastic economy in the principality of Salerno during the eleventh and twelfth centuries
L'ECONOMIA MONASTICA NEL PRINCIPATO DI SALERNO DURANTE L'XI E IL XII SECOLO Questo studio esamina il ruolo dei monasteri come proprietari nel principato di Salerno, durante l'XI e XII secolo, con particolare riferimento alla Badia della S. Trinità di Cava posta a confronto con altri edifici monastici, sulla base dell'analisi di documenti inediti dell'archivio di Cava, che contiene più di 3500 pergamene del XII secolo. Dopo una breve discussione s…
The Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of England, 1066–1266
This article looks back from the political crisis in England in the 1250s to examine English and Anglo‐Norman perceptions of southern Italy and Sicily, and contacts between the two regions, over the previous two centuries. Although some at least were conscious of a common Norman heritage, commentators from England knew relatively little of the southern kingdom; certainly less than the Norman chroniclers, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, and…
The Normans in their Histories
The Case of the Missing Martyrs
The Emperor Frederick II was excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX on Palm Sunday (20 March) 1239. Over the next six years a number of peace negotiations and offers took place, all of which ultimately failed, despite a belief at the imperial court in the spring of 1244 that success had been achieved. Finally, at the Council of Lyons, on 17 July 1245, Frederick was declared deposed and ‘deprived of all honour and dignity’ by Pope Innocent IV, and his …
Monarchy and monastery in the Mezzogiorno
MONARCHIA E MONASTERO NEL MEZZOGIORNO: L'ABBAZIA DI SANTA SOFIA, BENEVENTO E LA STAUFEN L'articolo esamina i rapporti del monastero di Santa Sofia con i Re del regno di Sicilia dal 1189 fino a dopo la morte del Re Manfredi nel 1126. Sebbene Benevento fosse una città indipendente, regolata dal Papa e non dal Re, l'estensione dei possedimenti dell'Abbazia nel regno portò, inevitabilmente, ad avere con esso rapporti assai importanti. Santa Sofia ha …
Royal control of the church in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily
For the king, after the fashion of tyrants, had reduced the church in his kingdom to slavery’. So John of Salisbury stigmatized king Roger II of Sicily. He continued that ‘instead of allowing any freedom of elections [Roger] named in advance the candidate to be elected, so disposing of all ecclesiastical offices like palace appointments’. This picture has been accepted by modern historians with very few reservations. To quote the standard history…
Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and the Gregorian Papacy
Of all the churches affected by the Gregorian reform movement few were more notable than the monastery of Montecassino. Not only the latter's own writers but even Pope Gregory vii himself described it as famous throughout Christendom. In southern Italy it was undoubtedly the most important single institution of the Latin Church. Founded by St Benedict in 529, by the eleventh century it was exempt from normal ecclesiastical jurisdiction and was th…
The Normans in their Histories
The Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of England, 1066–1266
This article looks back from the political crisis in England in the 1250s to examine English and Anglo‐Norman perceptions of southern Italy and Sicily, and contacts between the two regions, over the previous two centuries. Although some at least were conscious of a common Norman heritage, commentators from England knew relatively little of the southern kingdom; certainly less than the Norman chroniclers, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, and…
Southern Italy and the Eastern and Western empires, c .900–1050
The Byzantine Empire ruled parts of southern Italy throughout the early Middle Ages, but this region was usually, and inevitably, quite low on the imperial government's scale of priorities. This situation changed during the mid-tenth century, and one factor causing this was the arrival in Italy of the Ottonian rulers of Germany (emperors after 962), who posed both an ideological and a military threat to Byzantine rule. Otto I and his son were far…
Royal control of the church in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily
For the king, after the fashion of tyrants, had reduced the church in his kingdom to slavery’. So John of Salisbury stigmatized king Roger II of Sicily. He continued that ‘instead of allowing any freedom of elections [Roger] named in advance the candidate to be elected, so disposing of all ecclesiastical offices like palace appointments’. This picture has been accepted by modern historians with very few reservations. To quote the standard history…
Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and the Gregorian Papacy
Of all the churches affected by the Gregorian reform movement few were more notable than the monastery of Montecassino. Not only the latter's own writers but even Pope Gregory vii himself described it as famous throughout Christendom. In southern Italy it was undoubtedly the most important single institution of the Latin Church. Founded by St Benedict in 529, by the eleventh century it was exempt from normal ecclesiastical jurisdiction and was th…
Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and the Gregorian Papacy
Of all the churches affected by the Gregorian reform movement few were more notable than the monastery of Montecassino. Not only the latter's own writers but even Pope Gregory vii himself described it as famous throughout Christendom. In southern Italy it was undoubtedly the most important single institution of the Latin Church. Founded by St Benedict in 529, by the eleventh century it was exempt from normal ecclesiastical jurisdiction and was th…
Royal control of the church in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily
For the king, after the fashion of tyrants, had reduced the church in his kingdom to slavery’. So John of Salisbury stigmatized king Roger II of Sicily. He continued that ‘instead of allowing any freedom of elections [Roger] named in advance the candidate to be elected, so disposing of all ecclesiastical offices like palace appointments’. This picture has been accepted by modern historians with very few reservations. To quote the standard history…
Monarchy and monastery in the Mezzogiorno
MONARCHIA E MONASTERO NEL MEZZOGIORNO: L'ABBAZIA DI SANTA SOFIA, BENEVENTO E LA STAUFEN L'articolo esamina i rapporti del monastero di Santa Sofia con i Re del regno di Sicilia dal 1189 fino a dopo la morte del Re Manfredi nel 1126. Sebbene Benevento fosse una città indipendente, regolata dal Papa e non dal Re, l'estensione dei possedimenti dell'Abbazia nel regno portò, inevitabilmente, ad avere con esso rapporti assai importanti. Santa Sofia ha …
The Case of the Missing Martyrs
The Emperor Frederick II was excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX on Palm Sunday (20 March) 1239. Over the next six years a number of peace negotiations and offers took place, all of which ultimately failed, despite a belief at the imperial court in the spring of 1244 that success had been achieved. Finally, at the Council of Lyons, on 17 July 1245, Frederick was declared deposed and ‘deprived of all honour and dignity’ by Pope Innocent IV, and his …
The Normans in their Histories
The monastic economy in the principality of Salerno during the eleventh and twelfth centuries
L'ECONOMIA MONASTICA NEL PRINCIPATO DI SALERNO DURANTE L'XI E IL XII SECOLO Questo studio esamina il ruolo dei monasteri come proprietari nel principato di Salerno, durante l'XI e XII secolo, con particolare riferimento alla Badia della S. Trinità di Cava posta a confronto con altri edifici monastici, sulla base dell'analisi di documenti inediti dell'archivio di Cava, che contiene più di 3500 pergamene del XII secolo. Dopo una breve discussione s…
The Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of England, 1066–1266
This article looks back from the political crisis in England in the 1250s to examine English and Anglo‐Norman perceptions of southern Italy and Sicily, and contacts between the two regions, over the previous two centuries. Although some at least were conscious of a common Norman heritage, commentators from England knew relatively little of the southern kingdom; certainly less than the Norman chroniclers, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, and…
Monastic Miracles in Southern Italy, c.1040–1140
Almighty God sometimes shows his miracles not only in great things but also in minor matters, so that the faith of believers shall be more and more increased and thus it causes all creatures to break out in praise of their Creator, since he is seen to have a care with fatherly piety in all those things that are granted to human endeavour
Varieties of Monastic Discipline in Southern Italy During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
The conquest of southern Italy by the Normans during the eleventh century incorporated what had hitherto been a peripheral region more fully within the mainstream of Western Europe. However, notwithstanding this, in a number of respects the development of the Church in Norman Italy followed its own idiosyncratic pattern, rather different from the trends that prevailed in other parts of contemporary Latin Christendom. This distinctive evolution ca…
La Reforma gregoriana y su proteccion en la cristiandad occidental (Siglos XI-XII)
The thirteen essays in this volume are, like many conference proceedings, somewhat mixed, but there are a number of substantial and interesting contributions (Some indeed are so substantial that they cannot have been given as papers at the conference in their current form). Nine of the essays are in Spanish, two in French and two in Italian. Pride of place must surely be given to a brilliant study by Dominique Iogna Prat examining the representat…
Europa in costruzione
Southern Italy and the Eastern and Western empires, c .900–1050
The Byzantine Empire ruled parts of southern Italy throughout the early Middle Ages, but this region was usually, and inevitably, quite low on the imperial government's scale of priorities. This situation changed during the mid-tenth century, and one factor causing this was the arrival in Italy of the Ottonian rulers of Germany (emperors after 962), who posed both an ideological and a military threat to Byzantine rule. Otto I and his son were far…
Rome across Time and Space
Jean Dunbabin. The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305
Toward the beginning of this learned and stimulating book, Jean Dunbabin attempts to disarm the reader with a modest disclaimer, apologizing that her “subject is so diffuse, a gathering together of bits and pieces from a variety of fields” (p. 9). In fact, this is a thoughtful and sophisticated comparative study of the links between the kingdoms of Sicily and France in the forty years after Charles of Anjou conquered the regno in 1266. For a gene…
Frederick Barbarossa
Biographies of the famous medieval emperor seem to be like buses. One waits a very long time for one to appear, and then two come in relatively quick succession. Knut Görich published the first full scholarly biography in German for many years in 2011, and now John Freed has produced an equally massive study in English. This will surely become the standard work on this important reign for anglophone readers, superseding the 1969 book of Peter Mun…
Sarah Davis-Secord. Where Three Worlds Met
To discuss the significance of Sicily in the Mediterranean world from the seventh through to the late twelfth century is an ambitious undertaking. To do so successfully requires wide reading, considerable linguistic skills, and knowledge of several different historical traditions. To undertake this in about 250 pages of text also requires a talent for generalization (in the best sense), compression, and interpretation. Sarah Davis-Secord’s Where …
Bernardo Maragone, Gesta Triumphalia per Pisanos Facta
La Gesta Triumphalia est un récit strictement contemporain de l’histoire maritime de Pise au cours des vingt années précédant sa date de rédaction, probablement fin 1119 ou début 1120. Il s’agit d’un texte court d’environ 3 000 mots, dont la majorité est consacrée à l’expédition pisane et catalane réussie contre les îles Baléares en 1118-1119. Il couvre à peu près le même sujet qu’un autre texte pisan contemporain en vers, le Liber Maiorichinus, …
Conquerors and Churchmen in Norman Italy
The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th-12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this volume. Norman relations with the Byzantine world are also an important topic. Several studies directly examine questions of continuity and change, both with regard to lay society and in a section devoted to the Church; others approach the subject more obliquely, through the analysis of contempo…
The 'Gens Normannorum' - Myth or Reality?
Power and Authority, A Trial of Two Swords
History (16 works) · History (13 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Medieval Literature and History (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (10 works) · Classics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Classics (7 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 works)