Borders and the Norman World

Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvDan Armstrong,Áron Kecskés,Charles C. Rozier,Leonie Hicks

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Study of the Norman World's borders, frontiers, and boundaries in Europe, shedding fresh light on their nature and extent. The Normans exerted great influence across Christendom and beyond in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Figures like William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard subdued vast territories, their feats recorded for posterity by chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and Geoffrey Malaterra. Through travel and conquest, the Normans encountered, created, and conceptualised many borders, with the areas of Europe that they ruled and most affected often being grouped together as the "Norman World".This volume examines the nature, forms, and function of borders in and around this "Norman World", looking at Normandy, the British-Irish Isles, and Southern Italy. Three sections frame the collection. The first concerns physical features, from broad frontier expanses, to rivers and walls that were both literally and metaphorically lines of division. The second shows how borders were established, contested, and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall, the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what these borders did and whom they benefited.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-05
Mått156 x 234 x 30 mm
Vikt689 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781783277858

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DAN ARMSTRONG is a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at University College Dublin. ÁRON KECSKÉS is a St Leonard's Associate at the University of St Andrews, UK. CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. LEONIE V. HICKS is Reader in Medieval Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK. DAN ARMSTRONG is a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at University College Dublin. MARK HAGGER is a senior fellow of the University of Lincoln. He is the author of William: King and Conqueror (London, 2012) and Norman Rule in Normandy, 911-1144 (Woodbrdge, 2017), and is currently working on a new biography of Henry I for the Yale English Monarchs series. LEONIE V. HICKS is Reader in Medieval Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK. ÁRON KECSKÉS is a St Leonard's Associate at the University of St Andrews, UK. CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. EMILY A. WINKLER is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall and member of the History Faculty at the University Oxford.

Introduction: Writing the Borders of the Norman WorldDan Armstrong and Áron Kecskés PART I: Borders In and Around the Norman World1. Ireland and the Anglo-Normans within the Irish Sea World: Rebels, Mercenaries, Allies 1066-1169Caitlin Ellis2. The Northern Limits of Norman Power: Border Policies in Northumbria, c. 1050-1100Chelsea Shields-Más and Charles C. Rozier3. Controlling an Unstable Boundary: The Normans and their Continental Border Areas, 911-1135Astrid Lemoine-Descourtieux4. Boundary-making in the Beneventano in the early Twelfth CenturyÁron Kecskés PART II: Ecclesiastical Borders 5. Alexander II and the Normans: Borders as Instruments of Dialogueand CompromiseMaria Vezzoni6. Gregory VII, Lanfranc, and Ireland: Papal Relations at the PeripheryDan Armstrong7. "... a mari Barensi usque ad mare Bononiense": Crossing Borders. The Travels of Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, libertas ecclesiae, and the Uses of Clerical Mobility in an Age of ReformWilliam M. Aird8. Temporal and Spiritual Power in Norman Sicily: An Unreal Border?Ignazio Alessi9. The Crossing of Borders: The Legations of John of Crema, 1124-1125Callum A. Jamieson PART III: Conceptual Boundaries10. The Very Idea of a Border in BritainEmily A. Winkler and Nia Wyn Jones11. Norman Borders in the Work of William of Jumièges and Orderic Vitalis, c. 1057-1141Mark Hagger12. Is there a 'Norman' Historiography of the Conquest of Southern Italy?Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel13. The Lion, the Camel, and the Cassa of Terracina: Transfer and Exchange on the Borders of Norman ItalyJohn Aspinwall Afterword: Borders, Landscapes, and Seascapes Leonie V. Hicks Select BibliographyIndex