Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chapter I Southern Italy before the Normans
Chapter II The coming of the Normans
Chapter III The conquest of the m ainland
Chapter IV The conquest of Sicily
Chapter V The Normans, the papacy and the two empires
Chapter VI Governm ent and society in Norm an Itally
Conclusion
Maps
A brief guide to further reading
Index
Founded upon an unrivalled knowledge of the original sources for the conquest, this is a cogent and lucid analysis of a key medieval subject hitherto largely ignored by historians.