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Normans

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1999
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Introduction
1 - Vikings, Norsemen and Normans
2 - Normandy in the first half of the eleventh century
3 - The conquest of England
4 - England and Normandy in the twelfth century
5 - The fabric of Anglo-Norman England
6 - Aspects of Anglo-Norman society
7 - The Normans in southern Europe
8 - The Norman Kingdom of Sicily
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© Trevor Rowley, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2009
For my mother
and Esther, my fellow traveller
In the English-speaking world, the Normans are almost always thought of in the context of William the Conqueror and his defeat of Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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Scholars differ over the use of the term 'Norman' to describe the resulting mixture but, irrespective of nomenclature, there are few who would argue that the result was one of the most extraordinary and brilliant artistic achievements in the whole of medieval Christendom.
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 01-Jan-2009
History Press, The
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Cir 01-Jan-2009
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212
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12828
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ISBN:
0-752-45204-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-752-45204-3
THE NORMANS were a relatively short-lived cultural and political phenomenon.  They emerged early in the tenth century and had disappeared off the map by the mid-thirteenth century.  Yet in that time they had conquered England, southern Italy and Sicily, and had established outposts in north Africa and in the Levant.

The reality is that, even within this short time span, the Normans changed as time and place dictated from Norse invaders to Frankish crusaders to Byzantine overlords to feudal monarchs.  In the end their contribution to medieval culture was largely as a catalyst for other, older traditions.

Trevor Rowley is an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.
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First published 1999
This edition published 2009

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