Norman tradition and transcultural heritage : exchange of cultures in the 'Norman' peripheries of medieval Europe / edited by Stefan Burkhardt and Thomas Foerster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkhardt, Stefan, 1976- author, editor.

Contributor:

Foerster, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Normans--Europe--History.

Normans.

Group identity--Europe--History.

Group identity.

Civilization, Medieval.

History.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 305 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

Contents:

Tradition and heritage : the Normans in the transcultural Middle Ages / Thomas Foerster and Stefan Burkhardt

Between occidental and oriental cultures : Norman Sicily as "third space"? / Hubert Houben

Norman traditions in southern Italy / Graham A. Loud

The Greek-Byzantine heritage in the kingdom of Sicily / Vera von Falkenhausen

Charters and chancery under Roger I and Roger II / Julia Becker

Literary themes and genres in Norman southern Italy : the return of the saints / Corinna Bottiglieri

The Norman conquerors between "epos" and "chanson de gestes" : perception of identities in cultural flows / Eleni Tounta

Sicily's imperial heritage / Stefan Burkhardt

Imperial tradition and Norman heritage : cultures of violence and cruelty / Thomas Foerster

Creators of identities in the Norman kingdom of Sicily / Francesco Panarelli

The rise of the Normans as ethnopoiesis / Sigbjørn Sønnesyn

Keeping it in the family : re-reading Anglo-Norman historiography in the face of cultural memory, tradition and heritage / Benjamin Pohl

Norman topographies of conquest : mapping Anglo-Norman identities onto Ireland / Amy C. Mulligan

Integration and disintegration : the "Norse" in descriptions of the early Rus / Thorir Jonsson Hraundal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409463306

1409463303

OCLC:

829097358