Sicilian Vespers, Part II: The Massacre and the War of the Vespers

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Manfred of House Hohenstaufen is dead; Charles of Anjou, in the name of the papacy, has claimed Sicily and awaits coronation. Across the Ionian and Aegean Seas, Michael Palaeologus looks to the Latin West and waits. In Germany, Conradin, son of the last "rightful" king of Sicily, desires to seize his own claim to the throne. And the House of Aragon begins to stir and look towards Sicily with its own ambitions. This week on Footnoting History, the thrilling conclusion to our saga of the Sicilian Vespers which sees 4000 Frenchmen dead. 
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​Podcaster: Josh

Further Reading

Norman Housley, The Italian Crusades: The Papal-Angevin Alliance and the Crusades Against the Christian Lay Powers, 1254-1343, Oxford University Press (1982).

---, The Later Crusades: From Lyons to Alcazar, 1274-1580, Oxford University Press (1992).

Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century, Cambridge University Press (1958).

Brett E. Whalen, The Two Powers: The Papacy, the Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, (2019).
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