Norman tradition and transcultural heritage : : exchange of cultures in the 'Norman' peripheries of medieval Europe / / edited by Stefan Burkhardt and Thomas Foerster.

• TeilnehmendeR: Burkhardt, Stefan, 1976-; Foerster, Thomas.
• Place / Publishing House: Farnham, Surrey, England ;, Burlington, VT : : Ashgate,, [2013]; 2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)

Table of Contents

Tradition and heritage : the Normans in the transcultural Middle Ages / Thomas Foerster and Stefan Burkhardt -- Between occidental and oriental cultures : Norman Sicily as "third space"? / Hubert Houben -- Norman traditions in southern Italy / Graham A. Loud -- The Greek-Byzantine heritage in the kingdom of Sicily / Vera von Falkenhausen -- Charters and chancery under Roger I and Roger II / Julia Becker -- Literary themes and genres in Norman southern Italy : the return of the saints / Corinna Bottiglieri -- The Norman conquerors between "epos" and "chanson de gestes" : perception of identities in cultural flows / Eleni Tounta -- Sicily's imperial heritage / Stefan Burkhardt -- Imperial tradition and Norman heritage : cultures of violence and cruelty / Thomas Foerster -- Creators of identities in the Norman kingdom of Sicily / Francesco Panarelli -- The rise of the Normans as ethnopoiesis / Sigbjrn Snnesyn -- Keeping it in the family : re-reading Anglo-Norman historiography in the face of cultural memory, tradition and heritage / Benjamin Pohl -- Norman topographies of conquest : mapping Anglo-Norman identities onto Ireland / Amy C. Mulligan -- Integration and disintegration : the "Norse" in descriptions of the early Rus / Thorir Jonsson Hraundal.