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Category : Clwyd (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
The Clwyd Borders
Author: Borders and the Norman World
Author: Dan ArmstrongPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Study of the Norman World's borders, frontiers, and boundaries in Europe, shedding fresh light on their nature and extent. The Normans exerted great influence across Christendom and beyond in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Figures like William the Conqueror and Robert Guiscard subdued vast territories, their feats recorded for posterity by chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and Geoffrey Malaterra. Through travel and conquest, the Normans encountered, created, and conceptualised many borders, with the areas of Europe that they ruled and most affected often being grouped together as the "Norman World".This volume examines the nature, forms, and function of borders in and around this "Norman World", looking at Normandy, the British-Irish Isles, and Southern Italy. Three sections frame the collection. The first concerns physical features, from broad frontier expanses, to rivers and walls that were both literally and metaphorically lines of division. The second shows how borders were established, contested, and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall, the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what these borders did and whom they benefited.and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall, the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what these borders did and whom they benefited.and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall, the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what these borders did and whom they benefited.and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall, the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what these borders did and whom they benefited.eurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall, the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what these borders did and whom they benefited.
The Welsh Borders
Author: Roy MillwardPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Border Crossings
Author: Richard DobsonPublisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1839751118
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
When Richard Dobson toured the border county of Herefordshire in 2005, following in the footsteps of Victorian artist Henry Thornhill Timmins, he recorded the experience in his subsequent book In My Own Time. Join him in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, even before the word 'tourism' was first used.
The Geography of British History
Author: William HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
A Guide Through North Wales, Including Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire ... with the Adjacent Borders ... Designed to Accompany the Ordnance Maps ... With a Notice of the Geology of the Country, by A. C. Ramsay
Author: William CATHRALLCartographies of Culture
Author: Damian Walford DaviesPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This pioneering study offers dynamic new answers to Christian Jacob's question: 'What are the links that bind the map to writing?'
The Gallery of Geography
Author: Thomas MilnerPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Geography of British History: a Geographical Description of the British Islands at Successive Periods from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: with a Sketch of the Commencement of Colonisation on the Part of the English Nation
Author: William HUGHES (F.R.G.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The National Gazetteer
Author: Great Britain. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Travels & Topography.]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description