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The coins of Sicily and southern Italy The coins of Sicily and southern Italy
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15 The past, present and future of Norman rule in Apulia: Roger II’s silver ducalis
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Published:June 2021
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Abstract
The Norman rulers of Sicily and southern Italy are famed for their strategic uses of cultural elements borrowed from their Greek Christian and Arabic Muslim populations, as well as those consciously imported from North African societies in both Ifrīqiya and Fatimid Egypt. However, the Normans were not content simply to fit themselves into pre-existing patterns or to borrow local imagery and leave it at that. While they adopted and adapted local and regional elements of economy, visual culture, ceremony and court culture, they did so with an eye to demonstrating their authority by using the shared Mediterranean vocabulary in ways that demonstrated their specific claims to power. This chapter discusses one way in which Roger’s coinage reforms of 1140 did both of these things at once: adapting regional visual imagery and coinage styles while making specific claims to historical power in the Mediterranean generally and Apulia in particular. It focuses on Roger’s silver coin, the ducalis (ducat), which was a short-lived and unpopular denomination minted for Apulia. Despite its poor reception among Apulians, the coinage is important because it signalled both Roger’s claims to a long past for Norman power in the region and his plans for succession in Apulia by his son, Duke Roger.
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