The mystery at Chùrchuro

Conspiracy or incompetence in twelfth-century Sicily

Bibliographic Data

ID2824673
AuthorsJeremy Johns (0000-0003-4216-4858), Alex Metcalfe (0000-0001-8530-0958, University of Leeds)
Year1999
Volume62
Issue2
Pages226-259
Publication date1999-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00016694
OpenAlexW2068528829
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

Immediately after his successful conquest of Muslim Sicily (1060-92), Roger de Hauteville set about dividing the spoils amongst the small band of Norman, French and Italian knights who were his closest followers. This distribution of the land of Sicily and its inhabitants was in part based upon the fiscal documents of the Muslim administration, which were salvaged and adapted to post-conquest circumstances by a small cadre of Greek bureaucrats imported from Calabria. The documents were of two types: lists of tax-payers, known in Arabic asjarā 'id(sg.jarīda; Greek plateia;Latinplated); and descriptions of estate boundaries, known ashudud(sg.hadd; Greekperiorismos; Latindivisa). These were the foundations of the Arabic administration of Norman Sicily

Administration (probate law) · Ancient history · Arabic · CONQUEST · Estate · Linguistics · Political science · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · History · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Medieval History and Crusades · Philosophy

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