TY - BOOK ID - 2584095 TI - The decline and fall of medieval Sicily : politics, religion, and economy in the reign of Frederick III, 1296-1337 PY - 1995 SN - 0521496640 0521521815 0511523092 051188818X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sicily (Italy) KW - History KW - 1282-1409 KW - Sicily (Italy) - History - 1282-1409. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Frederick KW - Federico KW - Frederic KW - Federigo KW - Fadrique KW - Monarchy KW - History. KW - Kingdom (Monarchy) KW - Executive power KW - Political science KW - Royalists UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2584095 AB - This 1995 book is a detailed study of Sicilian life in the reign of Frederick III (1296-1337), a period which saw Sicily reduced from a bustling and prosperous Mediterranean emporium to a poor backwater torn apart by violence. The relative economic and social backwardness of Sicily within modern Italy has attracted considerable scholarly attention. Attempts to explain its ingrained poverty and civil strife usually blame either the legacy of two thousand years of colonisation by rapacious foreigners or the inherent weaknesses in the island itself and its people. More recently a model of 'economic dualism' has pointed to basic structural flaws in the economic relations that were established between the island and its continental trading partners from the twelfth century onwards. This book, by focusing on Frederick III's crucial reign, argues that there were many more things 'wrong' with Sicilian life than just the shape of its overseas trade relations. ER -