Format:
1 Online-Ressource (249 p)
ISBN:
9781907973758
Series Statement:
Armchair Traveller's History
Content:
An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia -- Contents -- Author Biographies -- Foreword: Old Apulia -- 1. Introduction -- Part I: The Gargano -- 2. The Gargano -- 3. Monte Sant' Angelo -- 4. The Norman Conquest - of Apulia -- 5. San Giovanni di Rotondo and Padre Pio -- 6. The Gargano Coast and the Tremiti -- 7. The Heretic from Ischitella -- Part II: Hohenstaufen Country -- 8. "The Wonder of the World" -- 9. Castel del Monte -- 10. The Emperor's Faithful Andria -- 11. The Land of Manfred -- Part III: The Tavoliere -- 12. Foggia and the Tavoliere
Content:
13. The Tavoliere: Lucera, Troia and Cerignola -- 14. Life on the Old Tavoliere -- 15. Latifondismo -- Part IV: The Adriatic Shore -- 16. Cathedral Cities on the Coast -- 17. King Ferrante's Coronation at Barletta, 1459 -- 18. Trani -- Part V: Bari -- 19. The Catapans -- 20. Old Bari -- 21. Bari, 1647 - Revolution -- 22. New Bari -- Part VI: The Murge -- 23. The Murge -- 24. Cities of the Murge -- 25. The Battle of Cannae, 216 BC -- 26. Maundy Thursday at Noicattaro -- 27. The Masserie -- 28. The Via Appia -- 29. Horace, the Apulian -- 30. Life at Altamura -- Part VII: The Cave Dwellers
Content:
31. The Cave Dwellers -- 32. Gravina-in-Puglia -- 33. Matera -- Part VIII: Trulli and the Difesa di Malta -- 34. Trulli -- 35. The Difesa di Malta -- 36. The Duel at Ostuni -- 37. Brigands -- Part IX: Tàranto and Brìndisi -- 38. Classical Tàranto -- 39. Two Men from Taras -- 40. The Princes of Tàranto -- 41. The Travellers' Tàranto -- 42. Brìndisi -- Part X: Lecce and the Baroque -- 43. Lecce -- 44. Don Cirò, the Bandit Priest -- 45. Baroque in the Salento -- 46. A Band of Brigands - the Vardarelli -- 47. Tarantismo -- Part XI: Greek Apulia -- 48. The Byzantine Terra d'Òtranto
Content:
49. The Castle of Otranto -- 50. Manduria -- Part XII: Three Little Courts -- 51. Conversano -- 52. Martina Franca -- 53. Francavilla Fontana -- Part XIII: Risorgimento? -- 54. The Death of the Regno -- 55. The Brigands' War -- 56. "A War of Extermination" -- Part XIV: Epilogue -- 57. Apulia Today -- Acknowledgements -- Further Reading -- Short Chronology -- Historical Gazetteer
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781907973765
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781907973758
Additional Edition:
Print version Seaward, Desmond An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia London : Haus Publishing,c2013 ISBN 9781907973758
Language:
English
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