Fernández-Aceves, Hervin
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Fernández-Aceves, Hervin
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Fernández-Aceves, Hervin
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Item type:Publication, The Making of Medieval SardiniaVolume Editors: Alex Metcalfe, Hervin Fernández-Aceves, and Marco Muresu. This landmark volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia’s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia’s contacts with the Byzantines, Muslim North Africa and Spain, Lombard Italy, Genoa, Pisa, and the papacy, recent and older evidence is analysed through Latin, Greek and Arabic sources, vernacular charters and cartularies, the testimony of coinage, seals, onomastics and epigraphy as well as the Sardinia’s early medieval churches, arts, architecture and archaeology. The result is an important new critique of state formation at the margins of Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West with the creation of lasting cultural, political and linguistic frontiers in the western Mediterranean. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, What can we learn from the Semantic Web to ‘revamp’ our Historical Research?This article comes as a result of the self-learning process I went through to understand what linked data is and how to use the semantic web model for collecting and organising my own historical data. In order to share this experience with a wider, non-specialised audience, I have written an introduction to the fundamental concepts behind the semantic model, accompanied by some brief reflections on their conceptual implications and examples on how to apply them to socio-historical data. In so doing, I wrote the introductory reflection that I wished I had known when I first heard the semantic web. The review of key concepts offers definitions for relational and linked data, graph database, RDF, semantic triple, vocabulary, ontology, and OWL. It is however a basic introduction, and it does not pretend to serve as a new contribution to the field or as a tutorial for learning how use RDF or OWL. Instead, it offers a beginner’s guide for students and researchers alike; it aims to show the reader where to start and what to expect. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Political Manoeuvring in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily: Civitate and Carinola in the Development of the South-Italian CountyOne the of most interesting documents concerning the social and political history of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily can be found in the first instance in Giuseppe Del Giudice’s appendix to his diplomatic collection of Angevin documents. The document records Robert, Count of Civitate, restoring some lands that Robert Guiscard and Roger II had formerly granted to Abbot Unfredus of Terra Maggiore, and agreeing upon some exemptions and privileges. The edited document, though seemingly unimportant and relevant only at a local level, is not only crucial for the understanding of King Roger’s rearrangement of the nobility and their dominions in the mainland. What I argue here is that it also exemplifies the contemporary usage of the notion of county as a construction of something more than just a ‘countship,’ and rather a cluster of lordships defined by the social role exercised by the Norman count. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Royal comestabuli and Military Control in the Sicilian Kingdom: A Prosopographical Contribution to the Study of Italo-Norman AristocracyWhen the Sicilian monarchy was established after years of conflict, King Roger II began to consolidate his authority on the Italian peninsula. The establishment of titles for the organization and control of the continental provinces has been noted by several scholars as an instrumental feature of the kingdom's social arrangement. Yet, contemporary scholarship has dismissed the royal comestabuli as unimportant social agents, either as "officials" documented in the Catalogus Baronum or as territorial lords. As a result, several questions surrounding the issue remain unanswered: to what extent did the local, lesser aristocracy shape the kingdom's effective social, and military, control over Southern Italy, and who were the nodal characters that allow us to discern this process? Was a comestabulia a fixed administrative district, or rather a type of social authority? Although in this limited space a finished picture cannot be presented, this article offers the results of a recent prosopographical exploration of South Italian sources for the Norman period. By taking the comestabuli as a starting point, I study the intermediary position that particular barons held as both royal agents and para-comital supervisors of the military contingents levied from the kingdom's aristocracy. This article attempts not only to shed some light on this almost ignored class of functionaries, but also to further explore the social roles established amongst the Italo-Norman nobility. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, La Cerdeña Medieval vista desde la modernidad. Un epítome historiográfico de la supuesta conectividad mediterráneaCon la intención de ofrecer una nueva lectura de las formas en las que se ha concebido a la Cerdeña medieval, el presente artículo presenta una sinopsis condensada y una crítica de las consideraciones más influyentes en la historiografía moderna del Mediterráneo. Este breve trabajo explica cómo estas consideraciones historiográficas han contribuido a la presunción de la unidad comercial y cultural del Mar Interior durante la Edad Media. Lo anterior se expone para relacionar la asumida conectividad del Mediterráneo medieval con la forma en la que se aborda la cuestión de la particularidad histórica de la isla sarda. Es sobre este epítome que se sugieren algunas claves para la interpretación histórica y se revisan las controversias aún vigentes de la Cerdeña medieval, especialmente centradas en torno a los reinos independientes sardos – i.e. los giudicati de los siglos XI al XIII. De esta manera, la discusión aquí desplegada pretende servir de antesala para una propuesta de investigación más robusta sobre los órdenes sociales sardos de la Edad Media central.51 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Vernacular Documents of Medieval Sardinia(BRILL, 2026-05-14); 42 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, County and Nobility in Norman Italy: Aristocratic Agency in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1130-1189Whilst historians often regard the Norman Kingdom of Sicily as centralised and administratively advanced, County and Nobility in Norman Italy counters this traditional interpretation; far from centralised and streamlined, this book reveals how the genesis and social structures of the kingdom were constantly fraught between the forces of royal power and local aristocracy authority. In doing so, Hervin Fernandez Aceves sheds important new light on medieval Italy. This book is the result of thorough research conducted on the vast source material for the history of this fascinating 12th-century world. Starting with the activities of Norman counts and the configuration of the counties, it explores how social control operated in these nodes of regional authority, and argues that the Sicilian monarchy relied on the counties (and the counts’ authority) to keep the realm united and exercise control. © Hervin Fernández-Aceves 2020.48