Having been promoted to royal status in 1130, Roger II of Sicily sought to bind a set of disparate territories into one kingdom covering mainland southern Italy and Sicily. Scholarship has devoted much space to identifying Roger's royal strategy in its embryonic and contested state of the 1130s – with views ranging from tyrannical authoritarianism to control via negotiation and consensus – and also to pinpointing some of the major turning points which led to the creation of the Sicilian monarchy. This article aims to contribute to this body of scholarship by examining an undervalued passage in the Ystoria Rogerii Regis Sicilie Calabrie atque Apulie of Abbot Alexander of Telese, a contemporary work of indispensable value for any understanding of the formation of a monarchy that changed the shape of South Italian history thereafter. The passage in question, an encomium of Capua, points towards Roger's capture of that city in the summer of 1134 as a controversial and pivotal event in the political and ideological formation of the new kingdom. In Alexander of Telese's important construction it was at Capua that Roger truly began acting as a king.

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Telese 的亚历山大的 Capua 的 Encomium 和西西里王国的形成

1130 年被提升为王室地位后，西西里的罗杰二世试图将一组不同的领土合并为一个王国，覆盖意大利南部大陆和西西里岛。学术界花了很多篇幅来确定罗杰在 1130 年代萌芽和有争议的状态中的王室战略——观点范围从专制的威权主义到通过谈判和共识进行控制——并且还指出了一些主要的转折点，这些转折点导致了西西里君主制。本文旨在通过检查 Ystoria Rogerii Regis Sicilie Calabrie atque Apulie of Telese 的 Abbot Alexander 中被低估的一段，为这一学术体系做出贡献，这是一部当代作品，对于任何理解改变了君主制的君主制的形成都具有不可或缺的价值此后的南意大利历史。有问题的段落是对卡普阿的赞美，指出罗杰在 1134 年夏天占领了这座城市，这是新王国政治和意识形态形成过程中的一个有争议的关键事件。在 Telese 的 Alexander 的重要建筑中，Roger 在 Capua 真正开始扮演国王的角色。