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The Normans: A History of Conquest Hardcover – August 3, 2021

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A powerful and evocative portrait of the Norman Conquest of Europe, revealing the permanent cultural and political legacy that resulted in their ascendency.

The Norman’s conquering of the known world was a phenomenon unlike anything Europe had seen up to that point in history.

They emerged early in the tenth century but had disappeared from world affairs by the mid-thirteenth century. Yet in that time they had conquered England, Ireland, much of Wales and parts of Scotland. They also founded a new Mediterranean kingdom in southern Italy and Sicily, as well as a Crusader state in the Holy Land and in North Africa. Moreover, they had an extraordinary ability to adapt as time and place dictated, taking on the role of Norse invaders to Frankish crusaders, from Byzantine overlords to feudal monarchs.

Drawing on archaeological and historical evidence, Trevor Rowley offers a comprehensive picture of the Normans and argues that despite the short time span of Norman ascendancy, it is clear that they were responsible for a permanent cultural and political legacy.
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"Rowley offers a thorough history of the Norman Dynasty from its creation and encompasses all their conquests across Europe. I’d recommend The Normans: A History of Conquest to a medieval history new-comer or a seasoned historian. It has something for everyone." ― Medieval Archives

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Trevor Rowley has combined his career in education with a lifelong love of landscape history and archaeology. His publications include Villages in the Landscape, The High Middle Ages and Norman England, published by British academic presses. The Normans is his first book to be published in America.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Books (August 3, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643136348
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643136349
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches
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LIEDE-MARIE HAITSMA
5.0 out of 5 stars History of Early Europe
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2022
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The early history of Europe is always fascinating to read about. There are always new facts bring discovered. I don't think that we will ever know the truth about the history back then. Reading these books will bring new items to the forefront.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Examines the strategic and cultural impact of the Normans.
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2023
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Trevor Rowley’s book on the Normans is less a military history than it is a look at the social and cultural impact of the Normans on the lands they conquered in one form or another. Naturally, you can’t discuss their conquests without talking about their battles, and Rowley does examine their key fights, but this isn’t a military history. There are other books that go into more detail about how the Normans conquered and created kingdoms from England to Antioch, but as the author states he wants to bring the history of the Normans’ achievements to the “general reader.”

Rowley begins by reviewing the origins of Normandy itself. How did it come about and its relationship to its neighbors. Although we all know how the predecessors of the French kings granted the Viking, Rollo, the area of Normandy, Rowley makes the argument that by the time William the Conqueror invaded England, the Viking influence was minimal. Vikings that had moved to Normandy were integrated with the locals to such an extent that they had more in common with their continental neighbors than with their Norse cousins ruling England. That meant when they occupied England, they brought with them their form of Catholicism and government. Within a few years they had replaced all the key bishoprics and senior aristocracy with Norman rulers, often Williams relatives. The biggest impact of the Norman conquest was that it moved England permanently away from Scandinavian influence and more into the western European orbit.

The same can be said for the Norman creation of what would become the Kingdom of Sicily and southern Italy. Although the Norman “conquest” took decades, since it wasn’t an invasion like in England, Norman religious and governmental institutions drove out the Byzantine and Islamic organizations. This insured that culturally Italy fell back into the orbit of western Europe.

Rowley also briefly examines Norman leaders creation of the Principality of Antioch, the longest surviving Latin state in the Holy Land, and the temporary occupation of parts of the North African coastline. But he spends little time on these since both were temporary occupations.

Rowley concludes that the Norman capacity to adapt to local cultural characteristics begs the question of whether or not they maintained a distinct identity. The bottom line is they changed the societies they came in contact with rather than dominating them.

All-in-all a very good book because it fleshes out the Normans beyond the stereotypical warrior-conqueror narrative. “The Normans” is not for the expert, but more for someone who wants to get a better feel for who the Normans were.
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L. A. Mendola
4.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Overview
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2023
This book is a very good overview. While there aren't many obvious "flaws" in it, one might differ with certain views expressed about the Normans in southern Italy, whose conquests took them into Greece, northern Africa and the Holy Land.

It's difficult to fit so much information into one volume. Readers seeking more detail will probably want to consult other books, such as my history of the Kingdom of Sicily under the Normans and Swabians.

This is a fine addition to a personal library.
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Sean Griffin
2.0 out of 5 stars Not for the uninitiated
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2021
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I'm not a historian and I wanted a book that would be a good introduction to the Normans. I struggled to read this book from the first chapter and spent a huge amount of time having to Google people and places as I went through it. The narrative didn't follow a clear chronological path and introduced characters without any context or background. I got the sense that this book was intended for people who already had a good understanding of the key players and the approximate timelines in which they operated. This is probably an excellent book for an experienced historian but as a beginner, I found it a struggle to get through it. I subsequently purchased another book called "The Normans" by Marjorie Chibnall, which covered pretty much the same information but (for me, at least) in a much better structured and more readable format than Rowley's book.
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