The Normans in European history

The eight lectures which are here published were delivered before the Lowell Institute in February, 1915, and at the University of California the following July, and it has seem...

A little later it is the Norman poet Wace who tells, through the mouth of the dying William the Conqueror, of these same Normans--brave and valiant and conquering, proud and boa...

Once Charles arrived by chance at a certain maritime town of Gallia Narbonensis. While he was sitting at dinner, and had not been recognized by the townspeople, some northern pi...

Not until the eleventh century also does the history of Normandy emerge from the uncertain period of legend and tradition and reach an assured basis of contemporary evidence. Th...

And so an important part of Norman history has to treat of the struggles with the duchy’s neighbors, Flanders on the north, the royal domain on the east, Maine and Anjou to the...

Few battles of the Middle Ages were of importance equal to that of Hastings, and few are better known. Besides the prose accounts of the Latin chroniclers, we have the contempor...

Both as a man and as a ruler, the figure of Henry II has come down to us distorted by the loves and hates of an age of the most violent and bitter controversy. Brilliant though...

In the history of judicial administration the personal initiative of Henry II is more evident than in finance. The king had an especial fondness for legal questions and often pa...

But this is not the whole of the story. The very strength and efficiency of Henry’s government were sure to produce a reaction in favor of feudal liberties in which his sons ser...

The results of the separation of Normandy from England have been a favorite subject with historians, and especially with those who approach the Middle Ages from the point of vie...

With these episodes of Norman feudalism it is interesting to compare the picture of Anglo-Norman society a hundred years later which we find in that unique piece of feudal biogr...

When they halt on the road, nothing is heard but the confession of sins and pure and suppliant prayer to God to obtain pardon. At the voice of the priests preaching peace hatred...

When we reach works like these, the literary history of Normandy merges in that of France, as well as in that of England, which, thanks to the Norman Conquest and the Norman emp...

Among the Norman leaders the house of Hauteville stands out preëminently, both as the dominant force in this formative period and as the ancestor of the later princes of souther...

The annals of the Norman conquest of southern Italy and Sicily are best given by F. Chalandon, _Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile_ (Paris, 1907), I. O. D...

The test of such phrases was the possession of adequate military and financial resources. Of the strength of King Roger’s army his long and successful wars offer sufficient evid...

For our general understanding of the Normans and their work, it is well that we should trace them in the lands where their direct influence grows faint and dim, as well as in th...

Normandy, millenary of, 1–4, 25 _f._; compared with England, 5 _f._; general features, 6–8; Upper and Lower, 8–11; inhabitants, 11–16; periods in its history, 17–22; general imp...