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

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

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Description 1 online resource (312 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 / Sigbjrn Snnesyn -- 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Normans -- Europe -- History.
Group identity -- Europe -- History.
Civilization, Medieval.
Europe -- History -- 476-1492.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Burkhardt, Stefan, 1976-
Foerster, Thomas.
Other Form: Print version: Norman tradition and transcultural heritage : exchange of cultures in the 'Norman' peripheries of medieval Europe. Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, [2013] vi, 305 pages 9781409463306 (DLC) 2013006008
ISBN 9781409463306 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409463313 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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