The Courage of the Normans: A Contemporary Study of Battle Rhetoric
By John R. Bliese Nottingham Medieval Studies, Vol.35 (1991) We thank the editors of Nottingham Medieval Studies for their permission to republish this article.
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Killing or Clemency? Ransom, Chivalry and Changing Attitudes to Defeated Opponents in Britain and Northern France, 7-12th centuries
Killing or Clemency? Ransom, Chivalry and Changing Attitudes to Defeated Opponents in Britain and Northern France, 7-12th centuries Matthew J. Strickland Krieg im Mittelalter (2001) On 25 September, 1066, the forces of King Harold II of England fell upon the … Continue reading
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Recent Excavations at Norwich Castle
Recent Excavations at Norwich Castle Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu Military Studies in Medieval Europe – Papers of the ‘Medieval Europe Brugge 1997’ Conference – volume 11 Introduction Norwich, the largest city in medieval England, dominated East Anglia from the eleventh century … Continue reading
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Medieval Frontiers and Fortification: The Pale and its Evolution
Medieval Frontiers and Fortification: The Pale and its Evolution Tadhg O’Keeffe Dublin City and County: From Prehistory to Present (1992) Moreover, the English have now a greater advantage than at the Conquest, for then there were not five piles or … Continue reading
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The Career of Robert Guiscard, according to the Annales Lupi Protospatharii
Robert Guiscard was one of several brothers who came to Italy from Normandy to work as mercenaries and gain their fortune. After arriving in Italy in 1046, he served in several campaigns before taking the place of his brother Humphrey … Continue reading
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William the Bastard at War
William the Bastard at War By John Gillingham Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. Allen Brown, edited by Christopher Harper-Bill, Christopher Houldsworth and Janet L. Nelson (Boydell, 1989) As Allen Brown observed at the end of his paper on his battle … Continue reading
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Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives
Looking Back on the Second Crusade: Some Late Twelfth-Century English Perspectives Peter W. Edbury The Second Crusade and the Cistercians It was as long ago as 1953 that Giles Constable published his seminal study, “The Second Crusade as seen by … Continue reading
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The Courage of the Normans: A Contemporary Study of Battle Rhetoric
The Courage of the Normans: A Contemporary Study of Battle Rhetoric John R. Bliese Nottingham Medieval Studies: v.35 (1991) Abstract The Normans thought of themselves as a distinct ‘race’ or ‘nation’, a separate people different from other peoples. The belief … Continue reading
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Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare
Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare Bernard S. Bachrach The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches (1988) The little poem “For Want of a Nail” has for centuries conveyed to children a glimpse of the fundamental technical underpinnings of the … Continue reading
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From Alfred to Harold II: The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State
From Alfred to Harold II: The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State Richard Abels The Normans and their Adversaries at War: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (Boydell, 2001) Abstract “It would be a serious error,” Warren Hollister acutely … Continue reading
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Northern Lights on the Battle of Hastings
Northern Lights on the Battle of Hastings By Kari Ellen Gade Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies Vol.28 (1997) The earliest sagas of the Norwegian kings are in general sparse in their comments on episodes and events taking place abroad and … Continue reading
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The Battle of Hastings according to Gaimar, Wace and Benoit: rhetoric and politics
According to Jean Blacker, the Norman Conquest was ‘the most visible cause of the upsurge in historical writing in twelfth-century England’ and in the continental territories controlled by successive Anglo-Norman and Norman-Angevin rulers. Continue reading
The Battles of Saint Aubin (1053) and Mortemer (1054)
William of Jumieges provides accounts of two battles fought between the Normans and the French. Continue reading
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The Viking Hasting in Franco-Scandinavian Legend
The Viking Hasting in Franco-Scandinavian Legend By Frederic Amory Saints, Scholars and Heroes: Studies in Medieval Culture (1979) Introduction: “Une histoire de Hasting à travers les chroniques serait fort instructive,” Lucien Musset has said, very truly. Not that such history has … Continue reading
“Fino alle mura di Babilonia”. Aspetti militari della conquista normanna del Sud
“Fino alle mura di Babilonia”. Aspetti militari della conquista normanna del Sud Giovanni Amatuccio Rassegna Storica Salernitana, n.30 (1998) L’apparizione dei Normanni nell’XI sullo scenario mediterraneo si caratterizza, a livello militare, come un incontro-scontro con le diverse realtà preesistenti: Longobardi, Bizantini … Continue reading
Saracen Archers in Southern Italy
Saracen Archers in Southern Italy De Re Militari, June (2001) Giovanni Amatuccio During the first phase of their Southern Italian conquest, the Normans included archers in their troops; but such usage seems to have been sporadic and simple. The tactic … Continue reading
