Audiobook: Normans in European History
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- Download Normandy and Its Place in History, Part 1 audio
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- Download The Coming of the Northmen, Part 1 audio
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- Download Normandy and England, Part 1 audio
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- Download The Norman Empire, Part 1 audio
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- Download Normandy and France, Part 1 audio
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- Download Norman Life and Culture, Part 1 audio
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- Download The Normans and the South, Part 1 audio
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- Download The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Part 1 audio
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Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these descendants of the Vikings, whose genius for assimilation transformed them into French, English, and Sicilian citizens of well-run states. Haskins discusses the great William the Conqueror and Henry II, the impetuous Richard the Lion-Hearted, and the hapless King John. The Normans founded the Kingdom of Sicily in which there was religious toleration and a Saracen bureaucracy, and left us a moving picture of themselves in the Bayeux Tapestry. (summary by Pamela Nagami)
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