Thursday, June 30, 2011

Sources of PDFs and e-books

http://findpdf.net/
(over 250 million pdf articles and e-books)

http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/view/iau/
(theses university of Leeds)

The conventional wisdom is that, under Norman rule, Sicily became a social and linguistic 'melting pot'. My thesis challenges this idea by showing how the extant linguistic data does not always present an accurate picture of the wider language situation and by arguing that Norman Sicilian society was often highly fragmented and characterised by a good deal of local variation.



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