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Title: The Normans (Peoples of Europe) by Marjorie Chibnall ISBN: 0-631-18671-9 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good introductory text, does exactly what it's supposed to
Comment: This is a good survey by one of the best people in the field. I used it to good effect in an introductory course on the "Normans in European History" in the university this spring. Students found it very negotiable. The chart on p. 61 is wrong -- the vertical lilne should be under the first wife, but this is the kind of mistake that can be easily rectified in the next edition. A more substantive criticism is that the chapter on the Normans after 1215 is extremely truncated, but that doesn't negate the value of the book. This is a great starting place for anyone interested in the Normans as a people.
Rating: 2
Summary: History's Great Howler
Comment: A scholarly but extremely dull book that contains history's great howler. On page 61, after tracing the descent of Matilda, Henry I's first wife, from the Saxon kings, the book insanely attributes the whole line of English kings to Henry I's second wife. As stated in Thomas R. Moore's book, "Plantagenet Descent: 31 Generations from William the Conqueror to Today," : "King Henry I had long been in love with Matilda ... great-granddaughter of the great English hero King Edmund Ironside. He proposed. The English were delighted. ... His example was followed by others, and intermarriages between Normans and English became common. ... His efforts were so successful that he has been called the refounder of the English nation. He did his part by fathering 25 illegitimate children. ... [Henry's] second wife ... proved barren. ... Ironically, after Henry's death she remarried and had seven children." pages 14-15.
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Title: The Norsemen in the Viking Age by Eric Christiansen ISBN: 0631216774 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Britons (Peoples of Europe) by Christopher A. Snyder ISBN: 063122260X Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Russians (The Peoples of Europe) by Robin Milner-Gulland ISBN: 0631218491 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Goths by Peter Heather ISBN: 0631209328 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd, James Campbell, Barry Cunliffe ISBN: 0631199047 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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