"When Dudo of Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum first appeared in or around 1015, written for the then Duke of Normandy, Richard II, Dudo created a text with

In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northe

In around 911, the Viking adventurer Rollo was granted the city of Rouen and its surrounding district by the Frankish King Charles the Simple. Two further grant

Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World examines surviving medieval manuscripts from 1066 to 1272 and the people and processes involved in their cre

Offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century.