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| Author | : Reginald Allen Brown |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780851153582 |
With their flying arrows and familiar chain-mail the Normans not only conquered Anglo-Saxon England, but had an impact on the whole of Europe. Beginning as Viking raiders (`Northmen') who settled in Northern France in the late ninth century, this energetic and enterprising race established themselves as far afield as Syria, Italy, Sicily and Ireland in the course of the next three centuries. As a people they not only produced outstanding leaders, but were inspired exponents of all the social, political and cultural movements of their time, from monasticism to feudalism and chivalry, from theology and secular government to architecture. They showed an astonishing capacity for organisation, simultaneously absorbing and transforming the cultures of the peoples they conquered, scattering superb churches and castles in the lands they settled. Professor Allen-Brown tells the fascinating story of the Norman expansion. Fully revised edition. R. ALLEN BROWNwas professor of history at King's College, London, and founder of the annual Battle conference on Anglo-Norman studies.
| Author | : Marjorie Chibnall |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0470692677 |
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.
| Author | : Trevor Rowley |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1643136356 |
A powerful and evocative portrait of the Norman Conquest of Europe, revealing the permanent cultural and political legacy that resulted in their ascendency. The Norman’s conquering of the known world was a phenomenon unlike anything Europe had seen up to that point in history. They emerged early in the tenth century but had disappeared from world affairs by the mid-thirteenth century. Yet in that time they had conquered England, Ireland, much of Wales and parts of Scotland. They also founded a new Mediterranean kingdom in southern Italy and Sicily, as well as a Crusader state in the Holy Land and in North Africa. Moreover, they had an extraordinary ability to adapt as time and place dictated, taking on the role of Norse invaders to Frankish crusaders, from Byzantine overlords to feudal monarchs. Drawing on archaeological and historical evidence, Trevor Rowley offers a comprehensive picture of the Normans and argues that despite the short time span of Norman ascendancy, it is clear that they were responsible for a permanent cultural and political legacy.
| Author | : Judith A. Green |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2022-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300180330 |
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move. The Norman dynasty ranged across Europe, led by men who achieved lasting fame, such as William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard. These figures cultivated an image of unstoppable Norman success, and their victories make for a great story. But how much of it is true? In this insightful history, Judith Green challenges old certainties and explores the reality of Norman life across the continent. There were many soldiers of fortune, but their successes were down to timing, good luck, and ruthless leadership. Green shows the Normans' profound impact, from drastic change in England to laying the foundations for unification in Sicily to their contribution to the First Crusade. Going beyond the familiar, she looks at personal dynastic relationships and the important part women played in what at first sight seems a resolutely masculine world.
| Author | : Hugh M. Thomas |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 478 |
| Release | : 2003-04-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191554766 |
Since the Anglo-Norman period itself, the relations beween the English and the Normans have formed a subject of lively debate. For most of that time, however, complacency about the inevitability of assimilation and of the Anglicization of Normans after 1066 has ruled. This book first challenges that complacency, then goes on to provide the fullest explanation yet for why the two peoples merged and the Normans became English. Drawing on anthropological theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and sources ranging from charters and legal documents to saints' lives and romances, it provides a complex exploration of ethnic relations on the levels of personal interaction, cultural assimilation, and the construction of identity. As a result, the work provides an important case study in pre-modern ethnic relations that combines both old and new approaches, and sheds new light on some of the most important developments in English history.
| Author | : David Bates |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2013-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199674418 |
An interpretative analysis of the history of the cross-Channel empire from 1066 to 1204.
| Author | : Augustin Thierry |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1840 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Emily Albu |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780851156569 |
Contemporary historians overtly eulogising the Norman achievement are shown to have employed a variety of literary strategies to convey implicitly their treacherous and predatory ways.
| Author | : George Laurence Gomme |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : London (England) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Leonie V. Hicks |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2016-04-25 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0857728563 |
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 is the one date forever seared on the British national psyche. It enabled the Norman Conquest that marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. But there was much more to the Normans than the invading army Duke William shipped over from Normandy to the shores of Sussex. How a band of marauding warriors established some of the most powerful dominions in Europe - in Sicily and France, as well as England - is an improbably romantic idea. In exploring Norman culture in all its regions, Leonie V Hicks is able to place the Normans in the full context of early medieval society. Her wide ranging comparative perspective enables the Norman story to be told in full, so that the societies of Rollo, William, Robert (Guiscard) and Roger are given the focused attention they deserve. From Hastings to the martial exploits of Bohemond and Tancred on the First Crusade; from castles and keeps to Romanesque cathedrals; and from the founding of the Kingdom of Sicily (1130) to cross-cultural encounters with Byzantines and Muslims, this is a fresh and lively survey of one of the most popular topics in European history.
