Sicily in Transition

Title: eng Sicily in Transition
Alternative Title: SIC TRANSIT
Description: The aim of the SicTransit project was to study the lives of Sicilian farmers, merchants and their families over seven hundred years of the Middle Ages (550-1250). Historical sources tell us that during this period the country was governed successively by Byzantine, Islamic, Norman and Swabian rulers. But the interest of our project lay with the people that history seldom mentions, those who farmed the land, sold and delivered its produce, lived, worked, married and died in its villages and towns. Who were these people, where did they come from and how did they fare in good times and bad? Some were Christians, some were Muslims, others Jews – how far did the faiths intermingle? What made Medieval Sicily a peaceful or a turbulent society?
Homepage: https://sicily-in-transition.org
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