The Normans in Europe by Elisabeth Van Houts

The Normans in Europe by Elisabeth Van Houts

This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. As this study demonstrates, few other medieval peoples generated historical writing of such quantity and quality. Van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining their origin, the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the period between c. 900 to c. 1150. The Normans in Europe explores such areas as: the process of assimilation between Scandinavians and Franks and the emergence of Normandy; the internal organisation of the prinicpality with a variety of source materials from chronicles, miracle stories and charters; the roles of women and children in Norman society; the main chronicle sources for the history of the Norman invasion and settlement in Britain; the contacts between the Norman dukes and the territorial princes of France, and the progress of the Normans amongst the settlers in Southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. -- .

Elisabeth van Houts is a Lecturer in Medieval History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge

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ISBN 13	9780719047510
ISBN 10	071904751X
Titel	The Normans in Europe
Autor	Elisabeth Van Houts
Serie	Manchester Medieval Sources
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-07-27
Seitenanzahl	320
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