The Normans in Europe

This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered, some of which has never been translated before. It takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining Norman expansion, their political and social organisation and their eventual decline. It considers the Normans in a pan-European context rather than in a restricted Anglo-Norman context.

The Normans in Europe explores such areas as: the process of assimilation between Scandinavians and Franks and the emergence of Normandy; the internal organisation of the principality with a variety of source materials from chronicles, miracle stories and chapters; the role of women and children in Norman society; the main chronicle sources for the history of the Norman invasion and settlement; the contacts between William once he became king of England and the territorial princes of France; and the progress of the Normans amongst the first settlers in Southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.