The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the later Thirteenth Century

Cambridge University Press
Steven Runciman
ISBN: 0521437741
price: $13.95   paperback

On March 30, 1282, the Sicilian townsfolk of Palermo slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. The massacre came at a climatic moment of thirteenth century Mediterranean history and its background is traced in this volume.