CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Fernández-Aceves, Hervin |
|---|---|
| Title | A Relational View of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily and its Royal Court: The Social Space Constructed by "Hugo Falcandus" |
| Summary | My thesis is a study of the scope, composition, and social roles of the Norman royal court of Palermo as reported by ‘Hugo Falcandus’ in his Historia or Liber de Regno Sicilie, a narrative that relates the affairs of state and intrigues of the kingdom under William I and the first years of William II (1154-1169). The matter upon which the study is founded are the interactions between social actors as narrated in the text (i.e. courtiers, nobles, palace servants, royal relatives) who were involved in the machinations in the government of the Mediterranean kingdom as expressed by ‘Hugo Falcandus.’ My starting hypothesis is that a relational approach can contribute to the understanding of narrative sources, and the two main questions that I expect to answer are: 1) How can one extract relational data and construct networks that visualise and represent the information contained in a narrative source such as the Liber de Regno Sicilie? And 2) What do the networks this constructed tell us about the significance and implications of the social space constructed by an author such as ‘Hugo Falcandus’? |
| Supervisor | Gaul, Niels Henrik |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/fernandez-aceves_hervin.pdf |
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