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The medieval history of Palermo in a new light / Annliese Nef -- Palermo in the eastern Roman empire / Vivien Prigent -- Islamic Palermo and the Dar al-Islam: politics, society and the economy (from the mid-9th to the mid-11th century) / Annliese Nef -- From a small town to a capital: the urban evolution of Islamic Palermo (9th-mid-11th century) / Alessandra Bagnera -- Palermo experienced, Palermo imagined: Arabic and Islamic culture (9th to 12th-centuries) / Mirella Cassarino -- Norman Palermo: the capital of a kingdom or the dream scene of an empire? / Annliese Nef -- Norman Palermo: architecture between the 11th and 12th century / Rosi Di Liberto -- Palermo in the 12th century: transformations in forma urbis / Elena Pezzini -- Palermo in the 14th-15th century: urban economy and trade / Henri Bresc -- Palermo in the 14th-15th century: the urban society / Igor Mineo -- Palermo as a stage for, and a mirror of, political developments from the 12th to the 15th century / Laura Sciascia -- The city of foreigners: Palermo and the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 15th century / Gian Luca Borghese -- Religious Palermo: a panorama between the 12th and the 15th centuries / Henri Bresc -- Monreale from its origin to the end of the Middle Ages / Sulamith Brodbeck -- Linguistic cultures and textual production in Palermo, from the end of the 11th to the end of the 15th century / Benoît Grévin -- The Jews of Palermo from late antiquity to the expulsion (598-1492) / Giuseppe Mandalà -- Citizens and freedom in medieval Sicily / Fabrizio Titone