Early Medieval Southern Italy in Transregional Perspective

By Kordula Wolf Kordula Wolf, Klaus Herbers (eds.), Southern Italy as Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages. Religious-cultural Heterogeneity and Competing Powers in Local, Transregional and Universal Dimensions, Köln-Weimar-Wien: Böhlau, 2018. When the Aghlabids and later Kalbids were ruling the emirate in Sicily (ca. 831–1091), the island was not a space separated from the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Therefore, the term “southern Italy” used in this blog ..