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History Of The Tyrants Of Sicily By Hugo Falcandus 1153-69
Editor: Loud, Graham A.; Editor: Wiedemann, Thomas E. J.
Medieval Sources; Paperback; Large size; Bibliography, Index, Maps, Tables 296 pages Published: July 1998 Manchester University Press
ISBN: 0719054354 This item non-returnable. Order may not be canceled.
THE HISTORY OF THE TYRANTS OF SICILY by the so-called Hugo Falcandus describes the events of the reign of King William I the Bad (1154-66) and the minority of his son William II the Good (1166-89) up to the spring of 1169. The author was both an eye-witness to the events he described and one of the great Latin writers of the Middle Ages.Provides a translation of, and the historical background to, the History of the Tyrants of Sicily by Hugo Falcandus. The text also offers a historiographical examination of the text.

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