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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Maritime Violence: Piracy and War: The Struggle for the Strait.- Chapter 3: The Sicilian Vespers: Roger de Lauria and the Ambiguities of Violence.- Chapter 4: The Art of Raiding: The Catalan-Aragonese 1292 Expedition into the Aegean Sea.- Chapter 5: Logistical Arrangements Between Sicily and Southern Italy during Alfonso V's Conquest of Naples, 1435-1442.- Chapter 6: Travel and Trade: Violence and Exchange in Post-Norman Sicily.- Chapter 7: Grand Tour and Pilgrimage: Sicily in the Imagination of Ibn Jubayr.- Chapter 8: Four men in a boat. Trade practices between the French Midi and the Kingdom of Sicily in the 12^th and 13^th centuries.- Chapter 9: Literary and Material Culture: Creating the "Communitas Siciliae" in the Post-Vespers Years.- Chapter 10: "The Luxuriant Southern Scene: " Textiles, Clothing and Memory in the Medieval Kingdom of Southern Italy and Sicily.- Chapter11: Ghosts of Admiral Roger: Piracy and Political Fantasy in Tirant lo Blanc.- Chapter 12: Digital Sicily: Digital Mapping Technology and the War of Sicilian Vespers: Using New Methods to Better Understand Old Problems.- Chapter 13: The Norman Sicily Project: A Digital Portal to Sicily's Norman Past.