Normans in European History

by Charles Homer Haskins

17 chapters7h 5mEnglish1915

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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)

Chapters (16)

1Normandy and Its Place in History, Part 1

1313

2Normandy and Its Place in History, Part 2

1266

3The Coming of the Northmen, Part 1

1461

4The Coming of the Northmen, Part 2

1401

5Normandy and England, Part 1

1776

6Normandy and England, Part 2

1680

7The Norman Empire, Part 1

1738

8The Norman Empire, Part 2

1362

9Normandy and France, Part 1

1684

10Normandy and France, Part 2

1538

11Norman Life and Culture, Part 1

2284

12Norman Life and Culture, Part 2

2112

13The Normans and the South, Part 1

1576

14The Normans and the South, Part 2

1026

15The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Part 1

1540

16The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Part 2

1605

Normans in European History

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