625 pages of heavily annotated text, 106 of annexes of a diverse nature (iconographic, tabular, lexicographic, onomastic), 57 on Sources and bibliography, 13 to four Index, 5 with abbreviations incorporated in the text, seven figures (in fact maps and plans) and eighteen tables: the book under consideration has the thickness and seriousness of a thesis. More specifically: it is ‘the profoundly revised version of a doctoral thesis supported in 2001’ (p. 9). Rapp...