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1 online resource (xvii, 284 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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"This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field."--Back cover |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Bates and Elisabeth van Houts, page 1 -- 1. Harness pendants and the rise of armory / John Baker, page 17 -- 2. The transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c. 1050-c. 1250 / Elma Brenner, page 47 -- 3. Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo's De balneis puteolanis : new hypotheses / Teofilo De Angelis, page 65 -- 4. A Latin school in the Norman principality of Antioch / Edoardo D'Angelo, page 77 -- Culti e agiografie d'età normana in Italia meridonale / Amalia Galdi, page 89 -- 6. The landscape of Anglo-Norman England : chronology and cultural transmission / Robert Liddiard, page 105 -- 7. The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava / G.A. Loud, page 127 -- 8. Écrire la conquête : une comparison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et de Geoffroi Malaterra / Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel, page 153 -- 9. Bede's legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon / Alheydis Plassmann, page 171 -- 10. The transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth century / Daniel Power, page 193 -- 11. Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in the Norman texts, 1050-1150 / Patricia Skinner, page 213 -- 12. Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century Normandy / Alice Taylor, page 231 -- 13. Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of Sicily / Mario Rosario Zecchino, page 253. |
| Summary |
'This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples thye subjugated, among whom many settled' -- Details from publisher. |
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Normans.
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Europe -- History.
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Normands (Français)
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Europe -- Histoire.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Normans
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Europe https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxCxPbbk4CPJDQJb4r6rq
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History
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Bates, David, 1945- editor.
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D'Angelo, Edoardo, editor.
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Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C., editor.
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People, texts and artifacts |
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Print version: People, texts and artefacts. London : Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, [2018] 1909646539 (DLC) 2017473754 (OCoLC)1024171876 |
| ISBN |
9781909646568 (electronic bk.) |
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1909646563 (electronic bk.) |
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1909646539 |
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9781909646537 |
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AU@ 000063927897 |
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