Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144 - Rilegato

Hagger, Mark

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1783272147 ISBN 13: 9781783272143

Casa editrice: Boydell Press, 2017

Riassunto

In around 911, the Viking adventurer Rollo was granted the city of Rouen and its surrounding district by the Frankish King Charles the Simple. Two further grants of territory followed in 924 and 933. But while Frankish kings might grant this land to Rollo and his son, William Longsword, these two Norman dukes and their successors had to fight and negotiate with rival lords, hostile neighbours, kings, and popes in order to establish and maintain their authority over it.
This book explores the geographical and political development of what would become the duchy of Normandy, and the relations between the dukes and these rivals for their lands and their subjects' fidelity. It looks, too, at the administrative machinery the dukes built to support their regime, from their toll-collectors and vicomtes (an official similar to the English sheriff) to the political theatre of their courts and the buildings in which they were staged. At the heart of this exercise are the narratives that purport to tell us about what the dukes did, and the surviving body of the dukes' diplomas. Neither can be taken at face value, and both tell us as much about the concerns and criticisms of the dukes' subjects as they do about the strength of the dukes' authority. The diplomas, in particular, because most of them were not written by scribes attached to the dukes' households but rather by their beneficiaries, can be used to recover something of how the dukes' subjects saw their rulers, as well as something of what they wanted or needed from them. Ducal power was the result of a dialogue, and this volume enables both sides to speak.

Mark Hagger is a senior lecturer in medieval history at Bangor University.

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Recensione

Hagger provides a solid and illuminating study of Norman rule-political, feudal, and cultural-from the Viking conquest in 911 to the Angevin absorption in 1144. Highly recommended. CHOICE

L'autore

Mark Hagger is a senior lecturer in medieval history at Bangor University.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Boydell Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783272147
• ISBN 13: 9781783272143
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 824