The Normans and the 'Norman Edge': Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032084237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 360 str.

Keith Stringer; Andrew Jotischky

Opis

This book makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and ‘state-formation’; the extent to which Norman practices and priorities were distinctive; the balance between continuity and innovation; and, not least, forms of Norman identity and their resilience over time.

Spis treści

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Editorial Notes

List of Abbreviations

Prologue: The Norman Edge in Context

Keith Stringer

1. Norman Identity and the Identity of Normandy, c.900–c.1300

Daniel Power

2. The Normans in the North

Judith A. Green

3. Names on the Norman Edge: The Persistence of Gaelic Names in ‘Middle Britain’

Fiona Edmonds

4. The Shape of the Norman Principality of Gwynedd

C.P. Lewis

5. Exogamy and Miscegenation in the Norman Worlds

Elisabeth van Houts

6. South Italian Normans and the Crusader States in the Twelfth Century

Ewan Johnson and Andrew Jotischky

7. The Nobility of the Principality of Antioch, 1098–1187: Names, Origins and Identity

Alan V. Murray

8. Saints’ Cults and Devotions on the Norman Edge: The Case of St Katherine of Alexandria

Andrew Jotischky

9. The Norman Edge: Some Reflections on Norman Expansion into ‘Outer Europe’

Keith Stringer

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Keith Stringer is Professor Emeritus of Medieval British History at Lancaster University.

Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London.