Identity Crisis
Tom Shippey: Norman Adventurers, 16 March 2023
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia
by Levi Roach.
John Murray, 301 pp., £12.99, March,978 1 5293 0032 1 Show More
by Levi Roach.
John Murray, 301 pp., £12.99, March,
The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th-Century Europe
by Judith Green.
Yale, 351 pp., £11.99, February,978 0 300 27037 2 Show More
by Judith Green.
Yale, 351 pp., £11.99, February,
“... progress of the Vikings from raiders to settlers to would-be conquerors: an attempted invasion by King Sweyn of Denmark three years later was abortive, and though Norwegians continued for many years to control the Scottish islands in the far North, their effect on the British mainland was negligible.But if you take a more romantic view, the First Viking Age ... ”