| Series |
Medieval Identities: Socio-Cultural Spaces (MISCS)
Medieval identities, socio-cultural spaces ; 9. ^A1427277
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| Contents |
Introduction / Emily A. Winkler and Andrew Small, page 11 -- 1. Norman conquests : nature, nurture, Normanitas / Matthew Bennett, page 43 -- 2. Marriage as a strategy for conquering power : Norman matrimonial strategies in Lombard southern Italy / Aur elie Thomas, page 67 -- 3. The changing priorities in the Norman incursions into the Iberian Peninsula's Muslim-Christian frontier, c.1018-c.1191 / Lucas Villegas-Aristiz abal, page 81 -- 4. Norman change, lords, and rural societies / Sandro Carocci, page 123 -- 5. The nobility of Norman Italy, c.1085-1127 / Graham A. Loud, page 139 -- 6. Shaping the urban landscape : the Norman as new patrons in Salerno / Maddalena Vaccaro, page 163 -- 7. Palermo and the Norman conquest of Sicily / Theresa J ackh, page 187 -- 8. Community and conquest on medieval Monte Iato, Sicily / Nicole M olk, page 211 -- 9. Holy war in the central Mediterranean : the case of the Zirids and the Normans / Matt King, page 229 -- 10. Hagiography and the politics of memory in the Norman conquest of the Italian south / Kalina Yamboliev, page 249. |
| Summary |
In both popular memory and in their own histories, the Normans remain almost synonymous with conquest. In their relatively brief history, some of these Normans left a small duchy in northern France to fight with Empires, conquer kingdoms, and form new ruling dynasties. This book examines the explosive Norman encounters with the medieval Mediterranean, c. 1000-1250. It evaluates new evidence for conquest and communities, and offer new perspectives on the Normans? many meetings and adventures in history and memory.00The contributions gathered here ask questions of politics, culture, society, and historical writing. How should we characterize the Normans? many personal, local, and interregional interactions in the Mediterranean? How were they remembered in writing in the years and centuries that followed their incursions? The book questions the idea of conquest as replacement, examining instead how human interactions created new nodes and networks that transformed the medieval Mediterranean. Through studies of the Normans and the communities who encountered them - across Iberia, the eastern Roman Empire, Lombard Italy, Islamic Sicily, and the Great Sea - the book explores macro- and micro-histories of conquest, its strategies and technologies, and how medieval people revised, rewrote, and remembered conquest. |
| General note | The publication is in production. (04/2021) |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Military history. |
| ISBN | 9782503590578 |
| ISBN | 2503590578 |
| ISBN | 9782503590585 (eISBN) |
| ISBN | 2503590586 (eISBN) |
