Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . es of municipal orderin the small Greek towns in the mountain districtsof the East would naturally be made the most must we forget, in this rapid enumeration ofthe scattered vestiges of institutions found andmade wise use of by Count Roger, the Basilian, , monasteries so liberally benefited by himand his widow and son. The first NormanArchbishop of Palermo was a Greek the old Cathedral of Palermo, which hadbeen turned into a mosque by the Arabs, was re-consecrated with great pomp and solemnity in 1
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . es of municipal orderin the small Greek towns in the mountain districtsof the East would naturally be made the most must we forget, in this rapid enumeration ofthe scattered vestiges of institutions found andmade wise use of by Count Roger, the Basilian, , monasteries so liberally benefited by himand his widow and son. The first NormanArchbishop of Palermo was a Greek the old Cathedral of Palermo, which hadbeen turned into a mosque by the Arabs, was re-consecrated with great pomp and solemnity in 1072,with tears of compunction and joy, and the sweetvoices of angels heard singing Hosanna, it was aGreek Archbishop Nicodemos, called in from^the small church of San Ciriaca below Monreale,who was installed. * All this wise policy of conciliation initiated byRoger I. was carried still further by Roger II., withwhom it was probably not a question of feelingbut of preference. He was born in Sicily late inhis fathers hfe (in 1095) after this policy of paci- 34. ,,,^ ~<$ \\v
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