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The Normans in Europe[Enter]
Translated and edited by Elisabeth van Houts

This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. As this study demonstrates, few other medieval peoples generated historical writing of such quantity and quality. This book takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining Norman expansion, their political and social organisation and their eventual decline. The Normans in Europe explores such areas as: the process of assimilation between Scandinavians and Franks and the emergence of Normandy; the internal organisation of the principality with a variety of source materials from chronicles, miracle stories and chapters; the role of women and children in Norman society; the main chronicle sources for the history of the Norman invasion and settlement; the contacts between William once he became king of England and the territorial princes of France and the progress of the Normans amongst the first settlers in Southern Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean. This valuable addition to our Manchester Medieval Sources series addresses a key subject within undergraduate and 'A' level courses. The Normans in Europe covers a much wider range of topics than anything currently available in this field, and provides a fascinating insight into Norman society and culture.

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Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
I: From vikings to Normans
Introduction
 1 Charter of King Charles the Simple, 17 December 905
 2 Charter of King Charles the Simple, 22 February 906
 3 Charter of King Charles the Simple, 14 March 918
 4 Dudo of Saint-Quentin, History of the Dukes of the Normans
 5 Norman annals, 842-915
 6 William of Jumièges, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans
 7 The Discovery and Miracles of St Vulfran
 8 The Miracles of Coutances
 9 The Plaintsong of William Longsword
 10 Flodoard of Reims, Annals
 11 Adémar of Chabannes, Chronicle
 12 Geoffrey Malaterra, Deeds of Count Roger and his brother Duke Robert
 13 The Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan
 14 Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla, Saga of Harald Fairhair
II: The Normans in Normandy
Introduction
 15 William of Jumièges, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans
 16 Gilbert Crispin, Life of Herluin of Bec
 17 William of Poitiers, Deeds of Duke William
 18 Charter from Jumièges on a substituted child
 19 Charters from Rouen cathedral and Saint-Pierre at Préaux
 20 Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History (on the character of the Normans)
 21 The Discovery and Miracles of St Vulfran
 22 The Miracles of Fécamp
 23 Marsilia of Saint-Amand, Letter to Abbot Bovo II of Saint-Amand (Elnone)
 24 Milo Crispin, On the origin of the Crispin family
 25 Eadmer of Canterbury, History of Recent Events
 26 Dudo of Saint-Quentin, History of the Dukes of the Normans (on Gunnor)
 27 Warner of Rouen, Moriuht poem
 28 Robert of Torigni, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans (on Gunnor)
 29 Robert of Torigni, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans (on Empress Matilda)
 30 Geoffrey Malaterra, Deeds of Count Roger and his brother Duke Robert
III: The Normans and Britain: the Norman Conquest
Introduction
Norman and other continental narratives
 31 The Discovery and Miracles of St Vulfran
 32 William of Jumièges and Orderic Vitalis, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans
 33 William of Poitiers, Deeds of Duke William
 34 Baudri of Bourgueil, Poem for Adela
 35 Guy of Amiens, Song of the Battle of Hastings
 36 Lanfranc of Canterbury, Letter to Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances
 37 The Ship List of William the Conqueror
 38 Bavarian annals, 1066
 39 Fulcoius of Beauvais, Jephthah poem
English narratives
 40 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version C
 41 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version D
 42 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version E
 43 John of Worcester, Chronicle
 44 Eadmer of Canterbury, History of Recent Events
 45 Henry of Huntingdon, History of the English People
 46 The Waltham Chronicle
 47 William of Malmesbury, Life of Wulfstan
 48 William of Malmesbury, Deeds of the Kings of the English
 49 Herman of Bury St Edmunds, Miracles of St Edmund
 50 Giso of Wells, ‘Autobiography’
Wales and Scotland
 51 The Life of Gruffydd ap Cynan
 52 William of Malmesbury, Deeds of the Kings of the English
IV: The Normans and their neighbours
Introduction
France
 53 William of Jumièges, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans
 54 Helgaud, Life of Robert the Pious
 55 Fulbert of Chartres, Letters (concerning Normandy)
 56 The Life of St Simon of Vexin
 57 The Short Account of William the Most Noble Count
 58 Suger of Saint-Denis, Life of Louis VI
 59 Lambert of Wattrelos, Annals
Maine, Anjou and Brittany
 60 William of Poitiers, Deeds of Duke William Aquitaine
 61 Charter of Jumièges, 1012
 62 Adémar of Chabannes, Chronicle
 63 The Miracles of Sainte-Foy
Burgundy
 64 Rodulfus Glaber, History
 65 Rodulfus Glaber, Life of St William of Volpiano
Flanders
 66 The Treaty between Henry I of England and Robert II of Flanders, 1101
V: The Normans in the Mediterranean
Introduction
Italy
 67 Wipo, Deeds of Conrad II
 68 Adémar of Chabannes, Chronicle
 69 Rodulfus Glaber, History
 70 William of Apulia, Poem on the Deeds of Robert Guiscard
 71 Geoffrey Malaterra, Deeds of Count Roger and his brother Duke Robert
 72 Amatus of Montecassino, History of the Normans
 73 Robert Guiscard, Pledge to Pope Nicholas II, 1059
 74 Orderic Vitalis, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans
 75 Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History
 76 Robert of Torigni, Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans
Byzantium
 77 Anna Comnena, Life of Alexius Comnenus (on Robert Guiscard)
 78 Anna Comnena, Life of Alexius Comnenus (on Roussel of Bailleul)
 79 Michael Psellus, Fourteen Byzantine Rulers (on Robert Crispin)
 80 Amatus of Montecassino, History of the Normans
Spain
 81 Dudo of Saint-Quentin, History of the Dukes of the Normans
 82 Adémar of Chabannes, Chronicle (on Roger of Tosny)
 83 Amatus of Montecassino, History of the Normans (on Robert Crispin)
 84 Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History (on Robert Bordet)
 85 Priest Raol, The Conquest of Lisbon
The Holy Land
 86 Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History
 87 Eadmer of Canterbury, History of Recent Events
References
Further reading
Genealogical charts
 1 The counts of Rouen and dukes of Normandy
 2 The counts of Rouen and dukes of Normandy
 3 The dukes of Normandy
 4 The dukes of Normandy and kings of England
 5 The Anglo-Saxon kings
 6 The Crispin family
 7 The Hauteville family
 8 The Norman princes of Capua
Maps
 1 Europe
 2 Normandy
 3 Britain
 4 Southern Italy
Index

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