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Additional authors

1. Winkler, Emily A. (Emily Anne), 1986-
2. Fitzgerald, Liam
3. Small, Andrew

Description

1. 266 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Series statement

1. Medieval Identities : Socio-Cultural Spaces ; volume 9

Uniform title

1. Medieval identities, socio-cultural spaces ; v. 9.

Subject

1. To 1517
2. Normans > Mediterranean Region > History
3. Normans > Warfare > History. > Mediterranean Region
4. Civilization, Medieval
5. Normans
6. Mediterranean Region > History > 476-1517
7. Mediterranean Region > History, Military > To 1500
8. Mediterranean Region

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Military history.

Contents

1. 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 / Aurélie 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-Aristizábal, 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 Jäckh, page 187 -- 8. Community and conquest on medieval Monte Iato, Sicily / Nicole Mölk, 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.

Call number

1. JFE 22-2320

Note

1. The publication is in production. (04/2021)

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. The Normans in the Mediterranean / edited by Emily A. Winkler, Liam Fitzgerald ; with the assistance of Andrew Small.

Publisher

1. Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v., [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Medieval Identities : Socio-Cultural Spaces ; volume 9
2. Medieval identities, socio-cultural spaces ; v. 9.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological term

1. To 1517

Added author

1. Winkler, Emily A. (Emily Anne), 1986- editor.
2. Fitzgerald, Liam, editor.
3. Small, Andrew, contributor.

ISBN

1. 9782503590578 hardcover
2. 2503590578 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 22-2320