HIST-281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Middle Ages
27 Oct 2020
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His expansions to the north and east was unsuccessful. It also included other wealthy city states in the north of italy. Feudal relations and manorial economies had taken hold on much of northern europe. Italian cities developed a commercial and mercantile direction. In the high and late middle ages, the cities of northern italy stood out from much of latin. Other locales like milan tried to walk between feudalism and mercantilism. Other powers like the hre wanted to extract wealth from these communes. Especially from territories like naples and sicily to the south: after the death of robert and roger i, roger ii inherited the lands of both his uncle and his father in italy and sicily. His reign represented the high point of norman rule over the new feudal kingdom of sicily. Under him and his successors, sicily remained a cultured and cosmopolitan land.
