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Marjorie
Chibnall.
The Normans. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
The Peoples of
Europe
series.
xiii,191pp.
Hardback ISBN
0631186719.
Publisher's
recommended price £19.95
This
book examines
the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and
their
various achievements in war, culture and civilization.
The
Normans were
a product of history rather than a natural ethnic or regional group.
This
book explores what they believed made them a distinct people and how
they
constructed their identity. Marjorie Chibnall examines the enigma of
the
Northmen who first settled around the Seine estuary and built a
principality
that took their name and became the springboard for wider expansion and
the conquest of England. The book moves on to study the rise of
Normandy,
and the integration and influence of other groups including the Saxons,
the Franks and new Scandinavian leaders. The Normans' remarkable
warfare
and maritime successes are revealed in detail including their conquest
of England, ionfiltration of Wales and Scotland, and assimilation in
Ireland;
and their campaigns in the south of Europe including southern Italy and
the Mediterranean region. The book also examines the development of
Norman
culture; the writing of their own history; Norman myth; and their
achievements
in bringing together various racial and cultural elements to form a
single
people.
This
book provides
the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available and will be
invaluable for students and all those interested in European history.
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