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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : BL:A0024397835
Traces the origin of supposedly Norman surnames.
Author : Wace,Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1843830078
Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.
Author : Nick Webber
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831198
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Author : David Bates,Edoardo D'Angelo,Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1909646539
Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639364008
A riveting and authoritative history of the single most important event in English history: The Norman Conquest. An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom. An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history. Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror’s attack. Morris writes with passion, verve, and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy. This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story, indeed the pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation.
Author : John Gillingham,Ralph A. Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192854025
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages, through to England's failure to dominate the British Isles and France in the later Middle Ages. Out of the turbulence came stronger senses of identity in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Yet this was an age, too, of growing definition of Englishness and of a distinctive English cultural tradition. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Kathryn Hurlock,Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270255
An examination into two of the most important activities undertaken by the Normans.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Clearfield Company
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0806319038
Author : John Fletcher Clews Harrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : England
ISBN : 0709901259
Author : R. Allen Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0851153674
Classic work assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest in European context. The introduction of Brown's book should be made compulsory reading- LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSThe `English' who faced the forces of William duke of Normandy on 14 October 1066 were by no means a pure-bred and unified race, norwas the flower of England's manhood laid low by an army of self-seeking Norman opportunists. R. Allen Brown traces the forces and influences that shaped both England and Normandy in the decades before 1066, and shows how the new order, emerging from the aftermath of the battle of Hastings, produced a degree of political unity and social dynamism previously unknown in England, bringing a reinvigorated nation fully into the mainstream of the dynamic expansion of western Latin Christendom.R. ALLEN BROWN was professor of History at King's College, London and founder of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman studies.
Author : Hugh M. Thomas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742538400
Exploring the successful Norman invasion of England in 1066, this concise and readable book focuses especially on the often dramatic and enduring changes wrought by William the Conqueror and his followers. From the perspective of a modern social historian, Hugh M. Thomas considers the conquest's wide-ranging impact by taking a fresh look at such traditional themes as the influence of battles and great men on history and assessing how far the shift in ruling dynasty and noble elites affected broader aspects of English history. The author sets the stage by describing English society before the Norman Conquest and recounting the dramatic story of the conquest, including the climactic Battle of Hastings. He then traces the influence of the invasion itself and the Normans' political, military, institutional, and legal transformations. Inevitably following on the heels of institutional reform came economic, social, religious, and cultural changes. The results, Thomas convincingly shows, are both complex and surprising. In some areas where one might expect profound influence, such as government institutions, there was little change. In other respects, such as the indirect transformation of the English language, the conquest had profound and lasting effects. With its combination of exciting narrative and clear analysis, this book will capture students interest in a range of courses on medieval and Western history.
Author : Emily A. Winkler,Liam Fitzgerald
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 2503590578
In both popular memory and in their own histories, the Normans remain almost synonymous with conquest. In their relatively brief history, some of these Normans left a small duchy in northern France to fight with Empires, conquer kingdoms, and form new ruling dynasties. This book examines the explosive Norman encounters with the medieval Mediterranean, c. 1000-1250. It evaluates new evidence for conquest and communities, and offer new perspectives on the Normans? many meetings and adventures in history and memory.00The contributions gathered here ask questions of politics, culture, society, and historical writing. How should we characterize the Normans? many personal, local, and interregional interactions in the Mediterranean? How were they remembered in writing in the years and centuries that followed their incursions? The book questions the idea of conquest as replacement, examining instead how human interactions created new nodes and networks that transformed the medieval Mediterranean. Through studies of the Normans and the communities who encountered them - across Iberia, the eastern Roman Empire, Lombard Italy, Islamic Sicily, and the Great Sea - the book explores macro- and micro-histories of conquest, its strategies and technologies, and how medieval people revised, rewrote, and remembered conquest.
Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596980662
In The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Western Civilization , Esolen describes the cultures that formed Western civilization, and explains to readers how each of them—from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, to the Renaissance humanists—has shaped the world we live in today. The latest work in the Politically Incorrect Guide (P.I.G.) series shows how the West laid the cornerstones of all modern civilization, including historical, artistic, and intellectual achievements.
Author : Julia Crick,Elisabeth van Houts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500852
The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this formative period of English history.
Author : Jane Bliss
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781783743162
This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience. The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write letters, berate pagans; advice is offered on how to win friends and influence people, how to cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession. Each text is introduced and elucidated with notes and full references, and the material is divided into three main sections: Story (a variety of narrative forms), Miscellany (including letters, law and medicine, and other non-fiction), and Religious (saints' lives, sermons, Bible commentary, and prayers). Passages in one genre have been chosen so as to reflect themes or stories that appear in another, so that the book can be enjoyed as a collection or used as a resource to dip into for selected texts. This anthology is essential reading for students and scholars of Anglo-Norman and medieval literature and culture. Wide-ranging and fully referenced, it can be used as a springboard for further study or relished in its own right by readers interested to discover Anglo-Norman literature that was written to amuse, instruct, entertain, or admonish medieval audiences.
