Roger of Lauria (c.1250-1305) : 'admiral of admirals' /
"Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman. It sparked a bloody conflagration, the so-called War of the Sicilian Vespers, that would...
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd,
2019
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