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4 Historiography in the making: a name-list of Sicilian Muslims from the Rollus Rubeus cartulary of Cefalù cathedral
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Published:June 2021
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This chapter examines three folios from the ‘Rollus Rubeus’ cartulary of Cefalù in Sicily, held in the Archivio di Stato at Palermo. The 120-page volume was compiled in Latin between 1329 and 1330 by Roger of Mistretta, a scribe from the cathedral church of Holy Saviour. The three folios include a list of eighty-three ‘men’ given to the church by its founder, King Roger II. The Rollus Rubeus name-list not only informs us of the church’s record-keeping practices, but it also makes rare reference to the Muslims’ response of flight, fight or conversion towards the end of their long-running revolts between 1189 and 1246. As a fourteenth-century record of a twelfth-century grant that also refers to calamitous, poorly remembered events in the thirteenth, this in-house recollection is a germane example of historiography in the making. Through its analysis of the list, the chapter provides a clearer view of naming, identity, prosopography, community, occupations and tax obligations, data at the very heart of medieval history and historiography as viewed through a church cartulary of King Roger II’s own foundation, rather than through narratives or charter evidence, with which it can be profitably used in tandem.
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