Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . m r ? - I s i. h i ii CHRIST CROWNING KING ROGER, THE MARTORANA, PALERMOAlinari p, 34 THE NORMAN RULE fication had begun to bear fruit, and such of thescared folk of poets and men of learning as had notwinged their flight across the sea had venturedout again into the open. The highly gifted ladwould be the first to profit by intercourse withthem, especially, as it proved, with geographersand mathematicians. Roger II., born in 1095, was a child when hisfather, Count Roger, died in 1101, and only tenyears old when he succeeded his br
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . m r ? - I s i. h i ii CHRIST CROWNING KING ROGER, THE MARTORANA, PALERMOAlinari p, 34 THE NORMAN RULE fication had begun to bear fruit, and such of thescared folk of poets and men of learning as had notwinged their flight across the sea had venturedout again into the open. The highly gifted ladwould be the first to profit by intercourse withthem, especially, as it proved, with geographersand mathematicians. Roger II., born in 1095, was a child when hisfather, Count Roger, died in 1101, and only tenyears old when he succeeded his brother Simon in1105. His young mother, Adelasia (Adelaide),proved, for once, a wise and capable regent. Heseized the reins of government in 1112, whenseventeen years of age, became lord and overlord ofall the Norman States in Southern Italy in 1127, atthe death of the last descendant of Robert Guiscard ;let himself be proclaimed king by the Optimatesin Salerno and the Parliament of Palermo, andwas crowned with great splendour in Palermoin 1130. This date marks an epoch in S
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