Roger II and the Sicilian Golden Age

[@Travieso78702]

Thank you for posting this. I'm a Rogers, and I always thought my paternal Norman line were just brutal. Glad some were educated.

[@nurlatifah9381]

THE AVOCATION OF A MAN DESIROUS OF A FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD - known simply as the "Book of Roger" is a book of 12-th century attemp at global knowledge, written by a court scholar, not only notes that the "earth is round", but also proclaims with equal assurance that some Nowegians are born without necks. Ref: Essay by Howard La Fay 1976

[@igniohealingbringeroftruth9254]

Interesting. I have aboriginal Sicilian, italic, Ancient Greek and Roman ancestry. I guess our people met in the old world. So hi

[@sabatino1977]

@@igniohealingbringeroftruth9254 Your comment makes no sense. *All* Sicilians can claim that ancestry and there are no records to prove the quatities of each as those various conquests predate modern geneological records. Si tu l'hai davvero sangue Siculo, dimmilo in nostro dialetto. Masano', vai fatti i cazzi tuoi.

[@topherv4229]

My Rogers line as well......I've read a couple of fascinating biographies on Roger.

[@kingsandthings]

2:35 I noticed while editing this video that it's actually Anacletus II, not Analectus :/

[@nurlatifah9381]

Art patron, author of Sicily's first written laws, and conqueror of parts of North Africa, Roger II created Europe's greatest court at Palermo...

[@nurlatifah9381]

Both father & son permitted the Saracen's sophisticated civilization to thrive beside Norman and Byzantine cultures.

[@manitheman0806]

How do find your book?

[@mnz145]

Very interesting. Thanks for your time.

[@FortunateXpat]

Im a 65 year old American/Swedish retiree who moved to Sicily 2 years ago. This is a very special island and basically what’s left of the old Italy. That’s old in a recent context, of course. 😂 Anyways I spend half of my time here on a motorcycle visiting as many historical sites as possible. So mush to see and so little time left.

[@RotasOpera]

Awesome

[@Powerpuncher34]

Holy da*n, Roger was good

[@robbanks1686]

Awesomeness I wish I learned this in school

[@rodgerbane3825]

The greatest King of all the middle ages? I'd say yes.

[@doraymeandyou]

I wanted to know about connections with pirates, the knights Templar, and the mafia.

[@TheGeneralGrievous19]

There are several points you made that are not true. 🤔 Roger II of Sicily did not go on a crusade not because he 'was tolerant'. You mentioned that he basically conquered muslim lands in North Africa. Most rulers in lands with muslim populations like Christian states in Iberia or crusader states in Levant were tolerant of muslim, Jewish and non-Latin subjects. Norman conquest of Sicily in 11th century was actually also sanctioned by the pope and a proto-crusade. Roger II was actually in conflict with rulers of Jerusalem as Bladwin I dismissed his mother Adelaide. 1100s is a period of the European Renissance of the 12th century. Greek and Arab texts were begginig to be studied all over Europe, in part due to crusades. There was big translation movement in Spain, in France there was a peak of humanist School of Chartes, and in Italy the medical School of Salerno. There were English intellectualls like Adelard of Bath or John of Salisbury or Slavic like Herman of Carinthia or Wincenty Kadłubek. Universities like in Oxford, Paris or Padua were created in 12th century. The learning in Western world was definetly not limited to Sicily and began to thrive. 🤷‍♂️

[@michaelvilliers266]

Love being a Norman

[@jackamt4351]

Are you reading for yourself or for your listeners?

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

Roger and robert both brothers weren’t of kings bloodline so their mother wasnt french either, They came just 100 years after rollo so they were pure danes along with their norman army lol Italo normans of today’s age are italian and danish

[@ianiello]

roger is hilarious, he had his painting look like jesus giving crowing jesus himself.

[@palestinianterrorist4747]

I am a direct descendant on my Father's line.

[@luxio369]

how?

[@palestinianterrorist4747]

@@luxio369 You want me to explain my family tree?

[@palestinianterrorist4747]

@@luxio369 There was a guy called Rogerio Emanuel Rogers from Sicily who fled to Cornwall in UK in the late 1400's at the threat of being burnt alive during the Spanish inquisition well Rogerio Emanuel Rogers is my 11th Great Grandfather on my direct father's line, in my Great Grandfather still carried the full sir name which was a double barrel sir name Rogers-Thomas.

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

You more of italian now then dane tho lol