Graham A. Loud is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds.

Scholars will welcome the appearance of Graham Loud’s Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which provides an illuminating window on the construction, consolidation and extension of the Norman kingdom of Sicily under Roger II (1130–1154 ….this work is another success for the popular Manchester Medieval Sources Series.This work is not simply a selection of translated materials with minimal context and apparatus, but a highly effective and fully annotated book that will satisfy both the specialist and those new to the subject...It will remain highly useful as a first port of call for the Anglophone reader for some time to come.

• PrefaceList of abbreviationsGenealogical chartsMapsIntroductionAbbot Alexander of Telese, *The History of the Most Serene Roger, first King of Sicily*The *Chronicle* of Falco of BeneventoRomuald of Salerno, *Chronicon Sive Annales, 1125–54*German sources for the reign of King RogerThe Montecassino Chronicle of Peter the DeaconThe *Chronicle* of St. Clement of CasauriaRoger II and the papacy: Selected documentsThe Assizes (or Constitutions) of King RogerThe Catalogue of the Barons*The Book of Roger* by Abû ‘Abdallâh al-IdrîsîBibliographyIndex

Graham A. Loud is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds.

Scholars will welcome the appearance of Graham Loud’s Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which provides an illuminating window on the construction, consolidation and extension of the Norman kingdom of Sicily under Roger II (1130–1154 ….this work is another success for the popular Manchester Medieval Sources Series.This work is not simply a selection of translated materials with minimal context and apparatus, but a highly effective and fully annotated book that will satisfy both the specialist and those new to the subject...It will remain highly useful as a first port of call for the Anglophone reader for some time to come.

• PrefaceList of abbreviationsGenealogical chartsMapsIntroductionAbbot Alexander of Telese, *The History of the Most Serene Roger, first King of Sicily*The *Chronicle* of Falco of BeneventoRomuald of Salerno, *Chronicon Sive Annales, 1125–54*German sources for the reign of King RogerThe Montecassino Chronicle of Peter the DeaconThe *Chronicle* of St. Clement of CasauriaRoger II and the papacy: Selected documentsThe Assizes (or Constitutions) of King RogerThe Catalogue of the Barons*The Book of Roger* by Abû ‘Abdallâh al-IdrîsîBibliographyIndex

Graham A. Loud is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds.

Scholars will welcome the appearance of Graham Loud’s Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily, which provides an illuminating window on the construction, consolidation and extension of the Norman kingdom of Sicily under Roger II (1130–1154 ….this work is another success for the popular Manchester Medieval Sources Series.This work is not simply a selection of translated materials with minimal context and apparatus, but a highly effective and fully annotated book that will satisfy both the specialist and those new to the subject...It will remain highly useful as a first port of call for the Anglophone reader for some time to come.

• PrefaceList of abbreviationsGenealogical chartsMapsIntroductionAbbot Alexander of Telese, *The History of the Most Serene Roger, first King of Sicily*The *Chronicle* of Falco of BeneventoRomuald of Salerno, *Chronicon Sive Annales, 1125–54*German sources for the reign of King RogerThe Montecassino Chronicle of Peter the DeaconThe *Chronicle* of St. Clement of CasauriaRoger II and the papacy: Selected documentsThe Assizes (or Constitutions) of King RogerThe Catalogue of the Barons*The Book of Roger* by Abû ‘Abdallâh al-IdrîsîBibliographyIndex