Joshua Birk specializes in political history and cultural history across religious boundaries in the medieval Mediterranean world. His book, Norman Kings of Sicily and the Rise of the Anti-Islamic ...

In Sicily, Palermo, Syracuse and Catania, the three main cities on the Italian island, are attractive destinations for their ...

Sicily bubbles with volcanic activity but Mount ... the still-active dig continues with the remains of a Roman theatre, a Norman castle, a mosque and a 15th-century church – testimony to ...