The Normans and the 'Norman Edge' : Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 41341006
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315555072
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472459787
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection of nine essays (The Normans and the Norman Edge. People, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe) represents the final output from the AHRC-funded project The Norman Edge (2008-11), for which Stringer was the Principal Investigator and Jotischky Co-Investigator. The project’s and hence the volume’s objective was to study and understand the processes and modalities of the Norman diaspora in northern England and Scotland, southern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean, ca.1050-1200, and thereby to make a fresh intervention in debates about power relations, localities and indigenous populations in frontier regions of Europe. The collection’s wide-ranging comparative focus sheds light on aspects of the Norman past that traditional regional or national histories do not reveal so clearly. It also makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and ‘state formation’, the extent to which Norman priorities and practices were distinctive, and forms of Norman identity and their resilience over time. Jotischky with his co-editor devised and curated the collection, working closely with the contributors to develop and refine their essays. Jotischky’s two contributions to the volume are: [1] ‘Saints’ Cults and Devotions on the Norman Edge’ (28 pp.) that examines the transmission of the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria from the eastern Mediterranean to western Europe, the reshaping of the cult in the West and its re-export to the East; and [2] ‘South Italian Normans and the Crusader States in the Twelfth Century’ (14 pp.), co-authored with the project RA, Ewan Johnson, an essay that re-assesses evidence for the role of diaspora Normans from southern Italy in the formation of a new diaspora after the 1st Crusade.
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- Non-English
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