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Steven Runciman.
The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960 (hardback was Cambridge U.P., 1958).
Series: Pelican Books.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Richard Clay, Bungay.
Size: 112x180x21mm.
Page count: 384pp; 1 foldout.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, a bit of wear at the edges and corners,not too severe; pages very browned with age; the spine is browned with age but not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Cambridge U.P. edn. in print at £12.99]
Weight without packaging: 234g.

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Contents: Prologue — Sicily; Death of Antichrist; Hohenstaufen inheritance; Across the Adriatic; Search for a king — Edmund of England — Charles of Anjou; Angevin invasion; Conradin; King Charles of Sicily; A Mediterranean empire; Pope Gregory X; Angevin revival; The great conspiracy; The Vespers; Duel between the kings; End of King Charles; The Vespers & the fate of Sicily — & the fate of Europe.
Appendix: John of Procida & the Vespers.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations:
Maps & plans: 3
Genealogies: 6
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 9pp
Index: yes

See also | Sicily |
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