I was expecting, on starting this history of the Normans, that at least half of it would be about the Normans in England. 1066 and all that. I could not have been more mistaken. The first third or so is about how a viking band under Rollo (apparently, how the French heard "Wrolf") settled in Nor...
A historical exploration of the shapers of Europe and the West, Lars Brownworth’s “The Normans: From Raiders to Kings” provides a concise and uninterrupted account of how these Viking descendants changed the course of history over a period of only two centuries. When the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Ep...
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