People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Norman Worlds of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries [PDF]
This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and
Bates, David +2 more
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The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy (r. 942–996)
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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Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus [PDF]
The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East.
Wierzbiński, Szymon
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La Tour des Archives et le fort des Tourelles de Vernon (Eure). Deux édifices royaux exceptionnels édifiés vers 1200 [PDF]
National audienceLa petite ville de Vernon, première ville normande que l'on rencontre en descendant la Seine après avoir passé Mantes et la Roche-Guyon, conserve de ses fortifications médiévales deux monuments assez souvent cités et qui n'ont pourtant ...
Mesqui, Jean
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Provenzale e occitano: vicende glottonimiche [PDF]
Ever since the Middle Ages, the dialects of southern France have been given a wide variety of linguistic labels, of which two stand out for their long-standing and widespread use, provençal and occitan.
Regis, Riccardo
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Anne of Kiev (c.1024-c.1075) and a reassessment of maternal power in the minority kingship of Philip I of France [PDF]
This article could not have been produced without the financial support provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in funding my PhD research.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from Wiley via http://dx.doi.org/10.
Ward, Emily Joan
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Rewriting the Gesta Normannorum ducum at Saint-Victor in the Fifteenth Century:Simon de Plumetot’s Brevis cronica compendiosa ducum Normannie [PDF]
This article offers an analysis, edition, and translation of the Brevis cronica compendiosa ducum Normannie, a historiographical account of the dukes of Normandy and their deeds, written at the turn of the fifteenth century by the Norman jurist and man ...
Allen, Richard, Pohl, Benjamin
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Nem Tui, nem Gibraltar: Óláfr Haraldsson e a Península Ibérica [PDF]
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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The Norman Conquest of the Classical Past: William of Poitiers, Language and History [PDF]
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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Écrire l’histoire de la Normandie dans le Chronicon de Hugues de Saint-Victor
This paper explores the way Hugh of Saint-Victor perceives and interprets the past of the duchy of Normandy in his Chronicon. A didactic work, the Chronicon offers a synthesis, the sources of which are difficult to identify, which leaves little doubt ...
Hugo Fresnel
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