The Normans in European History

Author: Charles Homer HASKINS

Genre: War & Military, Biography & Autobiography, History

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Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these descendants of the Vikings, whose genius for assimilation transformed them into French, English, and Sicilian citizens of well-run states. Haskins discusses the great William the Conqueror and Henry II, the impetuous Richard the Lion-Hearted, and the hapless King John. The Normans founded the Kingdom of Sicily in which there was religious toleration and a Saracen bureaucracy, and left us a moving picture of themselves in the Bayeux Tapestry. (summary by Pamela Nagami)

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PrefaceNormandy and Its Place in History, Part 1Normandy and Its Place in History, Part 2The Coming of the Northmen, Part 1The Coming of the Northmen, Part 2Normandy and England, Part 1Normandy and England, Part 2The Norman Empire, Part 1The Norman Empire, Part 2Normandy and France, Part 1Normandy and France, Part 2Norman Life and Culture, Part 1Norman Life and Culture, Part 2The Normans and the South, Part 1The Normans and the South, Part 2The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Part 1The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Part 2

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