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Clare Vernon teaches medieval art history at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. She was awarded by PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK for a thesis on the visual culture of Norman Apulia and has published on the art and architecture of southern Italy in a Mediterranean context.
This is a fascinating look at the important mid-sized port city of Bari during the pivotal centuries of the transition from Byzantine to Norman authority in the region. Vernon deftly shows us that Bari was a town attentive to its wide-ranging connections with important sites in both the contemporary and ancient Mediterranean world. Exploring these connections through the lens of Bari’s buildings and monuments, Vernon brings our focus to the town’s efforts to demonstrate its economic prowess and its participation in the papal reform movement, crusading, and cutting-edge artistic developments. -- Sarah Davis-Secord, Associate Professor of History * University of New Mexico, USA *
