IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 610: Normans, Normandy, and the Wider Norman World: 911 from a 2011 Perspective, II
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History / Centre Michel de Boüard (CRAHAM - UMR 6273), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
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| Organiser: | David Bates, School of History, University of East Anglia / Université de Caen Basse-Normandie |
| Moderator/Chair: | Charles Insley, Department of History & American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
| Paper 610-a | From Vikings to Normans: A 'question of sources'? (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 610-b | Wife, Concubine, Other?: The Marital Status of the Norman Ducal Women in the 10th and Early 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 610-c | Exile in Normandy and the Anglo-Norman World (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Abstract | This panel examines aspects of Norman and Anglo-Norman society in the 10th and 11th centuries. Recent thinking on Normandy's beginnings is examined along with new avenues for how we might explain the paradoxical success of the Viking settlement of the duchy but the limited Scandinavian influence thereafter. The status of early ducal wives, and concepts of frilla/friedelehe and more Danico, are considered with reference to Dudo of St-Quentin's Gesta. Norman chronicles and charters are examined for evidence of exile in the duchy, and compared with Anglo-Saxon outlawry to assess Norman influence on later Anglo-Norman exclusion practices. |