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Remembering the Vikings: Violence, institutional memory and the instruments of history
History Compass, Volume 19, Issue 1, January 2021., 2021 Abstract The Vikings maintain a fearsome and violent reputation to this day. This perspective on vikings was shaped by monastic chroniclers and dynastic propaganda. But are vikings the victims of history because their history has been written by their victims? Viking violence has been contextualised using comparative history but also as the result of a
Caitlin Ellis
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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 627-662, November 2020., 2020 The early medieval gilds of north‐west Europe were very different from their later medieval descendants. They were not specifically urban or economic in focus, instead being based on religious devotion, feasting and mutual protection, usually among members united by status and geography.
Rory Naismith
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The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy (r. 942–996)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 308-328, August 2015., 2015 In 966, by the end of the reign of its third duke, Richard I, Normandy had overcome the crises that had beset it in the middle of the century. Much of this success came from the coherence of its ruling group, which expressed itself partly in terms of ‘Norman’ identity.
Fraser McNair
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, 2015 À la suite de découvertes archéologiques et de questions posées par l’organisation même des bâtiments au contact des laïcs, nous avons retenu, pour cette troisième rencontre monastique, la question de « la présence des laïcs au seuil du cloître ...
Sapin, Christian
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The Norman Conquest of the Classical Past: William of Poitiers, Language and History [PDF]
, 2016 William of Poitiers' Gesta Guillelmi, written shortly after the Norman Conquest of England, remains surprisingly neglected, especially by historians. He is generally regarded primarily as a classical stylist who employed classical references to decorate ...
Winkler, EA
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Tabularia, 2001 The documentary gap of the years 911-990 is one of the main obstacles to our knowledge of the origins of the Duchy of Normandy. It is necessary, to give their full meaning to the rare sources subsisting from that period, to question the signification of ...
Mathieu Arnoux
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Nem Tui, nem Gibraltar: Óláfr Haraldsson e a Península Ibérica [PDF]
, 2015 According to Heimskringla, Óláfr Haraldsson, king and patron saint of Norway, sailed to the Straits of Gibraltar. It is told that he won several battles along the journey, some of which have been placed in Galicia. There are even those who say that Óláfr
Pires, Helio
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Early rebellion and its links to later success and conquest: Why was it that some Norman rulers profited from rebellions early in their reigns, whilst others did not? [PDF]
, 2011 The subject of this dissertation is the Normans. Its objective is to analyse the development of their civilisation, and to give reasons for their numerous accomplishments, both in Northern Europe and in the Mediterranean.
Burke, Matthew P.
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Terra e rendite nei secoli XII-XIII: Normandia, Inghliterra, Terrasanta. [PDF]
, 2010 Land and revenue in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century: Normandy, England, the Holy Land Thanks to the documentation made available by the “Patrologia Latina” database, the author has managed to reconstruct the legal-institutional profile of the ...
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Compte rendu de l'ouvrage de Marjorie Chibnall. — The Normans. Oxford, Blackwell, 2000 (The Peoples of Europe). [PDF]
, 2003 Recension dans les Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 46, n° 181Paru dans une collection historique et anthropologique consacrée aux peuples européens, ce livre sur les Normands couvre principalement la période 911-1204, même si, en amont, quelques pages
Aurell, Martin
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