The Normans were the descendants of a Viking group which settled in the region of Normandy, in northern France, during the late ninth century. After establishing a strong regional power, the Normans under Duke William I conquered England in the 11th century. Meanwhile other Norman adventurers traveled to other parts of medieval Europe, where they served as mercenaries and soldiers. One group of Normans were even able to conquer southern Italy and Sicily and establish their own kingdom there.
Articles about the Normans
Saracen Archers in Southern Italy, by Giovanni Amatuccio
La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles): sur les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d’une principauté, by Pierre Bauduin
Migrant Society to Island Nation: Sicily, by Charles Dalli
What is Anglo-Norman?, by Ruth J. Dean
Bridging Europe and Africa: Norman Sicily’s Other Kingdom, by Charles Dalli
Pagan Peverel: An Anglo-Norman Crusader, by Susan Edgington
The Descent of Belvoir, by Judith A. Green
The Rouen Riot and Conan’s Leap, by Warren Hollister
Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact, by Richard Ingham
The Medieval ‘Marches’ of Normandy and Wales, by Max Lieberman
In the gardens of Norman Palermo, Sicily (twelfth century A.D.), by Marco Massetti
De Saracenico in Latinum transferri: causes and effects of translation in the fiscal administration of Norman Sicily, by Alex Metcalfe
The Norman succession, 996–1135, by John le Patourel
Women and the Legitimisation of Succession at the Norman Conquest, by Eleanor Searle
“The kingdom of the English is of God”: the effects of the Norman conquest on the cult of the saints in England, by Katherine Sheffield
Was the ‘anarchy’ of King Stephen’s reign a reaction to Anglo-Norman government?, by Donald Stark
The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered, by Neil Strevitt
The campaigns of the Norman dukes of southern Italy against Byzantium, in the years between 1071 and 1108 AD, by Georgios Theotokis
The perception of difference and the differences of perception: The image of the Norman invaders in southern Italy in contemporary western medieval and Byzantine sources, by Eleni Tounta
The Mercian Connection, Harold Godwineson’s Ambitions, Diplomacy and Channel-crossing, 1056–1066, by AD F. J. Van Kempen
Norman and Anglo-Norman Participation in the Iberian Reconquista c.1018 – c.1248, by Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal
King John and Rouen: Royal itineration, kingship, and the Norman ‘capital’, c. 1199 – c. 1204, by Paul Webster
Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest, by Deanne Williams
News about the Normans
BBC to explore the legacy of the Normans
Early medieval manuscripts give new view of English life under the Normans
See also
The Bayeux Tapestry
Domesday Book
Articles about the Normans
Saracen Archers in Southern Italy, by Giovanni Amatuccio
La première Normandie (Xe–XIe siècles): sur les frontières de la haute Normandie: identité et construction d’une principauté, by Pierre Bauduin
Migrant Society to Island Nation: Sicily, by Charles Dalli
What is Anglo-Norman?, by Ruth J. Dean
Bridging Europe and Africa: Norman Sicily’s Other Kingdom, by Charles Dalli
Pagan Peverel: An Anglo-Norman Crusader, by Susan Edgington
The Descent of Belvoir, by Judith A. Green
The Rouen Riot and Conan’s Leap, by Warren Hollister
Middle English and Anglo-Norman in Contact, by Richard Ingham
The Medieval ‘Marches’ of Normandy and Wales, by Max Lieberman
In the gardens of Norman Palermo, Sicily (twelfth century A.D.), by Marco Massetti
De Saracenico in Latinum transferri: causes and effects of translation in the fiscal administration of Norman Sicily, by Alex Metcalfe
The Norman succession, 996–1135, by John le Patourel
Women and the Legitimisation of Succession at the Norman Conquest, by Eleanor Searle
“The kingdom of the English is of God”: the effects of the Norman conquest on the cult of the saints in England, by Katherine Sheffield
Was the ‘anarchy’ of King Stephen’s reign a reaction to Anglo-Norman government?, by Donald Stark
The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered, by Neil Strevitt
The campaigns of the Norman dukes of southern Italy against Byzantium, in the years between 1071 and 1108 AD, by Georgios Theotokis
The perception of difference and the differences of perception: The image of the Norman invaders in southern Italy in contemporary western medieval and Byzantine sources, by Eleni Tounta
The Mercian Connection, Harold Godwineson’s Ambitions, Diplomacy and Channel-crossing, 1056–1066, by AD F. J. Van Kempen
Norman and Anglo-Norman Participation in the Iberian Reconquista c.1018 – c.1248, by Lucas Villegas-Aristizabal
King John and Rouen: Royal itineration, kingship, and the Norman ‘capital’, c. 1199 – c. 1204, by Paul Webster
Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest, by Deanne Williams
News about the Normans
BBC to explore the legacy of the Normans
Early medieval manuscripts give new view of English life under the Normans
See also
The Bayeux Tapestry
Domesday Book
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