The Normans in Europe

Provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered some of which has never been translated before. Takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining Norman expansion, their political and social organisation and their eventual decline.Considers the Normans in a pan-European context rather than in a restricted Anglo-Norman context. Considers the Normans in a pan-European context rather than in a restricted Anglo-Norman context. The Normans in Europe explores such areas as: the process of assimilation between Scandinavians and Franks and the emergence of Normandy; the internal organisation of the principality with a variety of source materials from chronicles, miracle stories and chapters; the role of women and children in Norman society; the main chronicle sources for the history of the Norman invasion and settlement; the contacts between William once he became king of England and the territorial princes of France and the progress of the Normans amongst the first settlers in Southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.

著者

Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C.、van Houts Elisabeth

出版社

Manchester University Press

発売日

2000年1月発売

価格

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ISBN

9780719047503

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