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"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."
- Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784)
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 Format: Hardcover, 260 pages
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Inc.
ISBN: 0851156568
Release Date: Jan 5, 2001
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"The First Normans were Rollo and his fellow Vikings, marauders from the north, who fashioned the county, later the Duchy, of Normandy from lands won at the mouth of the Seine in about 911, making Rouen their capital." "The heirs of these pagan Northmen contrived a brilliant transformation of themselves into Christian warriors, and went on to conquer England, southern Italy and Sicily, and even distant Antioch, in the process carving out a formidable reputation throughout Western Europe and the Mediterranean." "Norman princes encouraged the celebration of these remarkable achievements in histories written to verify the legitimacy of their claims to settle and dominate their lands. From Dudo of Saint-Quentin (late tenth/early eleventh century) to the twelfth-century vernacular histories of Wace and Benoit, the Norman historical tradition largely acceded to these expectations. Beneath the surface, however, virtually all the histories told a different story, condemning the Normans treacherous to kin and ally as well as to foe." "Emily Albu examines the myths the historians fashioned, and the other literary strategies they employed, to expose and explain the wolfish predation at the core of Normanness."--BOOK JACKET.
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| | | |  | | | | List of Maps | | | List of Abbreviations | | | Preface | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | Dudo of Saint-Quentin | 7 | | 2 | The Gesta Normannorum Ducum and the Conquest of England | 47 | | 3 | Normans in the South | 106 | | 4 | The First and the Norman Principality of Antioch | 145 | | 5 | Orderic Vitalis | 180 | | 6 | Conclusion: Wace and Vernacular Romance-History | 214 | | Works Cited | 241 | | Index | 251 |
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