The Ferraris Chronicle: Popes, Emperors, and Deeds in Apulia 1096-1228

Every once in a while a long-forgotten work emerges from the shadows of the Middle Ages to be published in English for the first time.

This is the first complete English translation of the prose chronicle named for the abbey of Santa Maria della Ferraria. It was written during the reign of Frederick II, Italy's greatest medieval ruler, early in the thirteenth century about the Normans and Swabians in southern Italy. Based in part on the work of Falco of Benevento and others, it complements o...