Normans

Informationen zum Autor Marjorie Chibnall is Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has also lectured in the universities of Southampton and Aberdeen. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and her books include Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166 (1993) and Empress Matilda (1987). Klappentext This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization. Zusammenfassung This work examines the emergence of the Normans! their characteristics as a group! and their achievements in war! culture and civilization. The Normans were a product of history rather than a natural ethnic or regional group. This book explores what they believed made them a distinct people. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates. List of Maps. List of Genealogical Tables. Preface. Abbreviations. Part I: People and Duchy: . 1. The Emergence of a Norman People. 2. The Rise of Normandy. Part II: Conquest and Settlement in the North: . 3. The Kingdom of England. 4. Wales, Scotland, Ireland. Part III: The Normans in the South:. 5. Southern Italy. 6. The Kingdom of Sicily. 7. Mediterranean Expansion. Part IV: Myth and Tradition:. 8. The Norman Myth. 9. The Norman World. 10. The Normans after 1204. Select Bibliography. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Chibnall, M Chibnall, Marjorie Chibnall, Marjorie (University of Cambridge) Chibnall, Chibnall Marjorie
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2000
• EAN: 9780631186717
• ISBN: 978-0-631-18671-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The Peoples of Europe; The Peoples of Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; European History, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE