{"id":7085,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-camel-as-a-celebration-of-norman-power\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:21","slug":"the-camel-as-a-celebration-of-norman-power","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/camel\/the-camel-as-a-celebration-of-norman-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The camel as a celebration of Norman power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The camel as a celebration of Norman power <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The legend presents the image of Count Roger entering Messina on a camel. Some iconographic evidence, however, shows the Norman in front of the town gate with a group of Moorish prisoners, and, in the background, the figure of the camel (a symbol of their abuse of power). To confirm this interpretation, we sometimes find a little puppet of a Moor on the back of the camel, depicting the Moor as a tax collector, for example in the province of Vibo Valentia, in Tropea, Ricadi, San Costantino di Briatico, and in the province of Reggio Calabria, in Seminara.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The camel as a celebration of Norman power The legend presents the image of Count Roger entering Messina on a camel. Some iconographic evidence, however, shows the Norman in front of the town gate with a group of Moorish prisoners, and, in the background, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6303,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11602,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7085\/revisions\/11602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}