Durch die Christianisierung Skandinaviens veranderte Europa vom 9. bis zum 13. Jahrhundert sein Gesicht. Der aquilo blieb nicht mehr wie in der biblischen Tradition das kalte Jenseits, sondern ergriff seinen Platz im politischen und kulturellen Gefuge der europaischen Volker. Diese Integrationsleistung brachte auf beiden Seiten, der gebenden wie der nehmenden, neue Formen der Selbst- und Fremddeutung hervor. Das Buch vergleicht die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in der lateinischen und volkssprachlichen Geschichtsschreibung des 11. bis 13. Jahrhunderts - sowohl in der Historiographie im Reich...

The Normans have long been recognised as one of the most dynamic forces within medieval western Europe. With a reputation for aggression and conquest, they rapidly expanded their powerbase from Normandy, and by the end of the twelfth century had established themselves in positions of strength from England to Sicily, Antioch to Dublin. Yet, despite this success recent scholarship has begun to question the Norman Achievement and look again at the degree to which a single Norman cultural identity existed across so diverse a territory. To explore this idea further, all the essays in this volume...

This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, his works were copied in elaborate manuscripts in almost all of Latin Europe. This wide distribution is particularly surprising for an author like Godfrey whom modern historians have never credited with any importance at all, as they considered his...