Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and Contrasts

ISBN-13: 9780367601416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Keith J. Stringer; Andrew Jotischky

Opis

In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and the Levant. Their achievements still resonate powerfully today, and represent a vital field of historical study. But how far did colonial elites define themselves as Norman, and to what exte

Recenzje

'This important collection of articles is the result of a collaborative research project...at Lancaster University. The authors take full advantage of the Normans’ transnational, multiethnic exploits to contribute to a view of a Middle Ages that was far more complex and ambitious than is commonly thought...Highly recommended.' Choice 'This is a very interesting collection of essays which does much to improve our understanding of how the Normans dominated but also integrated into the lands that they conquered.' Arquebusier ’This is an excellent and thought-provoking volume.’ English Historical Review

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction, Andrew Jotischky and Keith Stringer; Aspects of the Norman diaspora in northern England and southern Scotland, Keith Stringer; At the northern edge: Alba and its Normans, Alexander Grant; From shire to barony in Scotland: the case of eastern Lothian, Jonathan Gledhill; Ireland after 1169: barriers to acculturation on an ’English’ edge, Robin Frame; The concept of the frontier in Norman chronicles: a comparative approach, Leonie V. Hicks; Marriage strategies among the Normans of southern Italy in the 11th century, Catherine Heygate; Urban communities and the Normans in southern Italy, Paul Oldfield; Gesta Normannorum? Normans in the Latin chronicles of the First Crusade, Léan Ní Chléirigh; Castles and frontiers in the Latin East, Denys Pringle; The Assises d’Antioche: law and custom in the principality of Antioch, Peter W. Edbury; Index.

O autorze

Keith Stringer is Professor of Medieval British History at Lancaster University, UK; Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval European History at Lancaster University, UK.