Alex Metcalfe: 1 book
Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily
Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060 Arabic was the dominant language, but by 1250 Sicily was an almost exclusively...
