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Roger of Lauria (c.1250-1305) : 'admiral of admirals' /

"Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman. It sparked a bloody conflagration, the so-called War of the Sicilian Vespers, that would...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stanton, Charles D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • 1. Battle of Benevento (26 February 1266)
  • 2. A Calabrian exile in the Court of Aragon (1262-1282)
  • 3. Battle of Tagliacozzo (23 August 1268)
  • 4. Aragonese expansion (1229-1282)
  • 5. Angevin consolidation and aggrandizement (1268-1282)
  • 6. Revolt of the Vespers (30 March 1282)
  • 7. Aragonese intervention (August-October 1282)
  • 8. Stalemate (November 1282-March 1283)
  • 9. Admiral of Aragon (20 April 1283)
  • 10. The opposing fleets (1282-1302)
  • 11. Battle of Malta (8 June 1283)
  • 12. Anjou's dreams of empire dashed (June-November 1284)
  • 13. France's crusade against Aragon (May-November 1285)
  • 14. Battle of the counts (23 June 1287)
  • 15. Truces and treaties (June 1287-November 1291)
  • 16. Raid on Romania (Summer 1292)
  • 17. Switching sides (December 1293-April 1297)
  • 18. Aragon's invasion of Sicily at Anjou's bidding (1298/1299)
  • 19. Lauria's last great campaign (Summer 1299-Spring 1300)
  • 20. Endgame (Spring 1301-Summer 1302)
  • Epilogue.