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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Winkler, Emily A. (Emily Anne), 1986- editor.

Fitzgerald, Liam, editor.

Small, Andrew, contributor.

Series:

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

Medieval Identities : Socio-Cultural Spaces ; volume 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Normans--Mediterranean Region--History.

Normans.

Normans--Warfare--Mediterranean Region--History.

Civilization, Medieval.

History, Military.

Military art and science.

History.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--History, Military--To 1500.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

266 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Motivations and Strategies

1. Norman Conquests: Nature, Nurture, Normanitas / Matthew Bennett

2. Marriage As A Strategy For Conquering Power: Norman Matrimonial Strategies In Lombard Southern Italy / Aurelie Thomas

3. The Changing Priorities In The Norman Incursions Into The Iberian Peninsula's Muslim

Christian Frontiers, C. 1018

C. 1191 / Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal

pt. II The Implications of Conquest in Sicily and Southern Italy

4. Norman Change, Lords, And Rural Societies / Sandro Carocci

5. The Nobility Of Norman Italy, C. 1085

1127 / Graham A. Loud

6. Shaping The Urban Landscape: The Normans As New Patrons In Salerno / Maddalena Vaccaro

7. Palermo And The Norman Conquest Of Sicily / Theresa Jackh

8. Community And Conquest On Medieval Monte Iato, Sicily / Nicole Molk

pt. III Perceptions and Memories

9. Holy War In The Central Mediterranean: The Case Of The Zirids And The Normans / Matt King.

Notes:

The publication is in production. (04/2021)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503590578

2503590578

OCLC:

1239800571