People, Texts and Artefacts

Thisvolume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 atAriano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays byleading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks toenhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work onthe Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe inan original way. It has as its central theme issues related to culturaltransfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across thesocieties that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societiesof the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction betweenthe Normans and the peoples they subjugated, among whom many then settled.