Normandos

From the hand of the young medievalist Levi Roach, this work brings us closer to one of the civilizations that most altered the course of European medieval history. From their beginnings as Viking raiders and later Frankish mercenaries and vassals under the fearsome and legendary Rollo, the Normans spread throughout Europe, assimilating with mainstream Christian cultures to serve their capricious princes and dukes with their emblematic eagerness for war. , glory and wealth. Roach takes us along with these characters diluted by history to learn about their adventures, and how they demolished and rebuilt the foundations of European culture.There was no town or border that these warriors did not reach, from rainy England to the impressive Byzantine cities, passing through Almoravid Iberia or the fractured Italy of the Middle Ages. Whatever their fate, the Normans made their presence felt, overthrowing dynasties, conquering lands and cities, charting the course of Catholicism, or challenging the great empires of the day. From pagans to Christians, from pirates and vandals to princes and kings, the meteoric rise of the Normans not only shows their chameleon-like abilities as a people, but exemplifies the turbulent and winding medieval history, where treachery, war, intrigue and diplomacy they were bargaining chips in every town they dealt with.