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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Normans"”.
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A Medieval tale: Saxons, Normans and the telscombe ring
A medieval silver-gilt finger ring was found in July, 2010 using a metal detector near the village of Telscombe, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The object, hereto referred to as the Telscombe Ring, was reported and documented per the Treasure Act (1996). In 2012, it was disclaimed …
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The patronage and benefaction of Cistercian monasteries in the frontier zones of the March of Wales, 1130-c.1256.
… with the houses which remained loyal to the Normans and which established no daughter houses in Wales, but in reality the position was more complex. The charter evidence relating to three of the Norman abbeys, all located in frontier zones in which Anglo-Norman dominance remained contested …
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Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066 - 1154.
… fifty years following the Domesday survey the Normans extended the system of compact lordships based upon castleries, hundreds and hundredal castleries in order to bring the more remote parts of the county under control and to provide protection for its borders. The new men placed in control of …
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The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland: Liturgy, Practice, and Society
… in use in Ireland prior to the arrival of Normans in the twelfth century. The existence of this liturgical rite and its supposed suppression at the hands of the Normans are usually taken for granted in these works. However some modern liturgical scholarship has begun to question the …
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Animals and the economy of medieval Ireland: a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains from Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare
… a settlement and its occupants. With the Anglo-Normans dominating the archaeology of the later period, there is a significant gap of knowledge surrounding Gaelic sites of this period, which ultimately raises the question as to the influence of the former on the economy of those settlements. This …
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The Problem of Pendar : a lost abbey in medieval Senghenydd and the transformation of the church in South Wales
… Southern Welsh March between the coming of the Normans and around 1300. Investigation of this broad area of research identified a more focused area as the phenomenon of Pendar. Pendar is known to have had association with the Cistercian Order but its precise status within the order has never …
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National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth century Ireland
… have it, began with the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the twelfth century, or at least since it became English colonial policy to force them to retain a distinction upon the gradually assimilating English population with the statutes of Kilkenny 1366, the first of a number of such laws …
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Theme and variations: Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland
… the conversion period to the coming of the Anglo-Normans. The premise is that ecclesiastical and secular settlement formed a cohesive whole which characterised the societal organisation of early medieval Ireland. The matter of the thesis is to isolate some of the agents of cohesion to see was this …
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Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250
… the Norman Conquest and after the arrival of the Normans. Research is also presented with a view to questioning both the origin of the castle and the definition of the term. The research uses a certain amount of data from outside of the area including Normandy. <br/><br/> The outcome of the …
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Servicium Debitum and Scutage in Twelfth Century England With Comparisons to the Regno of Southern Italy
… These three areas offer insight into how the Normans established the servicium debitum, how knights exempted themselves from their obligation or were compensated for extra service, and various aspects of what their service entailed, such as castle guard. A study of the returns made by …
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Commerce and coexistence: Muslims in the economy and society of Norman Sicily.
… to the counts and kings of Sicily after the Normans became more established in their rule. Their economic role fueled their coexistence with the Christians of the island. With this coexistence, there were possibilities for close interactions between Christians and Muslims based on their …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
… arguing for or against the idea that the Italo-Normans had a policy of ‘latinisation’ with regards to Eastern-rite monasteries. This thesis will argue, however, that this conceptual framework obscures more important long-term economic and social factors that affected Germany, Italy and Byzantium …
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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
… of Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060, Arabic was the dominant language but by 1250 prestigious Romance vernaculars could be heard almost everywhere. Of particular importance is the formative period of Norman rule (1061-1194), when the key transitions from an …
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Patronage and politics at Barking Abbey, c.950 - c.1200
… era were frequently inherited by the incoming Normans along with their landholdings. Through a detailed discussion of two sets of unpublished charters (Essex Record Office MSS D/DP/Tl and Hatfield, Hatfield House MS Ilford Hospital 1/6) I offer new dates and interpretations of several events in …
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
… aspect of medieval race. I argue that Anglo-Normans developed the technique of “animalization” by which they denigrated Welsh personhood as more animal than human, a portrayal countered by Welsh literary representations of the human/animal binary. This exploration shows that a species …
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Abbas, episcopus, dominus. Potere tripartito e ruoli convergenti nella Sicilia normanno-sveva (secoli XI-XIII)
La presente ricerca intende contribuire allo studio della Sicilia normanno-sveva, attraverso le indagini condotte sui più antichi diplomi di Catania conservati nel Tabulario del Capitolo della Cattedrale e nel Tabulario dei monasteri di Santa Maria di Licodia e San Nicolò l’Arena. Oggetto di …
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Perceptions of ringforts in pre-modern Ireland
… of the country was appropriated by the Anglo-Normans and they too seemed to have viewed ringforts as important, albeit different, types of monuments. The goal of this thesis has been to investigate the question of how ringforts were perceived in pre-modern Ireland. To do so, this initial …