Continuity of the Conquest: Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism
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The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the impact of the past on the Normans themselves. The Continuity of the Conquest corrects these oversights.
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle explores the Carolingian aspects of Norman influence in England after the Norman Conquest, arguing that the Normans’ literature of kingship envisioned government as a form of imperial rule modeled in many ways on the glories of Charlemagne and his reign. She argues that the aggregate of historical and literary ideals that developed about Charlemagne after his death influenced certain aspects of the Normans’ ruling approach, including a program of conversion through “allurement,” political domination through symbolic architecture and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the royal forest as an extension of the royal court.
An engaging new approach to understanding the nature of Norman identity and the culture of writing and the problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history. -- Provided by Amazon.com
Keywords
Charlemagne, -- Emperor, -- 742-814 -- Influence -- Charlemagne 742-814 -- To 1500; Normans -- History -- To 1500 -- England; Imperialism;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780271074016
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
City
University Park, PA
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Object Description
viii, 193 pages; 24 cm.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Hoofnagle, Wendy Marie, "Continuity of the Conquest: Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman Imperialism" (2016). Faculty Book Gallery. 305.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/305
