Yes, Mrs. Simeti does not have a scholarly background, but as someone who has
been up to her eyebrows in 12th-century Sicily for over a decade now I can tell
you that she has read a lot of the basic background information. This is what
makes her books so confusing. Anything I might use from
I cannot answer the question of red wedding dresses in medieval Sicily. But i
would like to note that Sicily might be considered something of a special case.
Sicily was settled by Phoenicians during the 10th through 8th c. BCE, and by
750 BCE by Greeks, who absorbed the indigenous Sicani and
