The Normans in Europe / Edition 1

by Elisabeth Van Houts, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719047510
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	07/27/2000
Series:	Manchester Medieval Sources
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. From Vikings to Normans
2. The Normans in Normandy
3. The Normans and Britain: the Norman Conquest of England
4. The Normans and their neighbours
Bibliography
Genealogical charts: Ducal family of Normandy; Royal families of England; Hauteville family in Italy; Crispin family
Maps: Normandy; Mediterranean area as a whole