Before the Normans: Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (The Middle Ages Series) by Barbara M. Kreutz - 1991

Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 3 illus; 227p; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-221) and index. Contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Beginnings -- 2. The First Arab Impact -- 3. A Carolingian Crusade -- 4. Firming the Elements -- 5. Amalfi in Context -- 6. Salerno's Southern Italy in the Tenth Century -- 7. The Late Tenth Century and South Italian Structures -- 8. Campania and Its Culture in the Tenth Century -- 9. Epilogue: The Eleventh Century and After -- Notes -- Appendix: The Southern Lombard Rulers, 758-1000 -- Bibliography -- IndexSubjects: European History.History. Medieval and Renaissance Studies.World History. HISTORY Medieval. Social conditions… Read More

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. Laid in is a card from Kreutz with a lengthy note, unsigned and possibly incomplete. The hardcover issue is uncommon.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992-01-29. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!