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Norman tradition and transcultural heritage : exchange of cultures in the 'Norman' peripheries of medieval Europe /

The essays in this volume look at questions of Norman traditions in some of the peripheral Norman dominions. Divided into two sections, the volume begins with eight chapters focusing on Norman Sicily. These essays demonstrate both the degree of cultural intermingling that made this kingdom an extrao...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burkhardt, Stefan, 1976-, Foerster, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.