ABSTRACT
The Apulian historical texts, which briefly report the main events in southern Italy year by year between the ninth and eleventh centuries, well emphasize how dangerous the Muslims were to that area. The biographies of the saints and the chronicles are divided into sections of different length, and calculating how many times the Muslims appear in them therefore only has an indicative value. Most of the Christian authors describe events that took place in Italy or in nearby areas; sometimes, their horizons widened to include the rest of the Mediterranean, and these writers prove to have some information about the Muslim world. A coeval Neapolitan anonymous author also narrates how at the beginning of the tenth century, the Neapolitan authorities, fearing a Muslim attack, decided to transfer the relics of a saint into the city.
