In their quest to generate an ethnic identity for themselves, the Normans celebrated their expansionist activities in a corpus of historiographic texts in which the multi-authored and chameleon-like Gesta Normannorum Ducum claims pride of place. This and other histories, both vernacular and Latin, were what Benoit de Sainte-Maure adapted into his secular poetic narrative. One of the motivations behind Benoit's royal patronage could have been to tie the Anglo-Norman aristocracy of late twelfth-century England into a cultural homeland from which they were growing increasingly remote. The sense of Norman history that Benoit imparts through his French verse was the one that Henry II and his Anglo-Norman contemporaries must have assimilated as part of their courtly entertainment.
The Lives of William the Conqueror and Sons
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In their quest to generate an ethnic identity for themselves, the Normans celebrated their expansionist activities in a corpus of historiographic texts in which the multi-authored and chameleon-like Gesta Normannorum Ducum claims pride of place. This and other histories, both vernacular and Latin, were what Benoit de Sainte-Maure adapted into his secular poetic narrative. One of the motivations behind Benoit's royal patronage could have been to tie the Anglo-Norman aristocracy of late twelfth-century England into a cultural homeland from which they were growing increasingly remote. The sense of Norman history that Benoit imparts through his French verse was the one that Henry II and his Anglo-Norman contemporaries must have assimilated as part of their courtly entertainment.
- ISBN:
- 9780888443076
- 9780888443076
- Category:
- Christianity
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 15-07-2018
- Publisher:
- PIMS
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 236
- Dimensions (mm):
- 226x152x18mm
- Weight:
- 0.39kg
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