![]() Join Lars Brownworth as he looks at both England and Normandy in the time of Richard the Good. In the process he would commission the first court historian and create a new identity for the Normans. Join Lars Brownworth as he follows the ferocious warrior Rollo, the first Norman, who began life as a simple raider and ended it as a great lord of the West. His solution would intertwine the fate of Normandy with the kingdom of England, and lay the groundwork for the great conquest to come. Their story, however, begins rather humbly in the fierce Viking Age, when a group of Scandinavian raiders came crashing into Charlemagne’s empire. In the course of two centuries the Normans launched a series of extraordinary conquests, transforming Anglo-Saxon England into Great Britain, setting up a powerful Crusader state in Antioch, and turning Palermo into the dazzling cultural and economic capital of the western Mediterranean. ![]() ![]() They were the great success story of the Middle Ages, a footloose band of individual adventurers who appeared out of nowhere to blaze across the face of Dark Age Europe. I bring this up now because Brownworth has just begun another series, Norman Centuries. This history lecture podcast covers the little known Byzantine Empire through the study of twelve of its greatest rulers.īrownworth is an engaging speaker, and the subject matter is fascinating. 5 The Norman Kingdom of Sicily had dominated Italian politics for a long time, but by 1266 its energy was exhausted. It’s available as a podcast series through the iTunes Store, or from his site. I noticed that I haven’t mentioned Lars Brownworth excellent lecture series, 12 Byzantine Rulers. Equally stunning (and matching) is THE SEAWOLVES: A History of the Vikings, just published, and the forthcoming IN DISTANT LANDS: A Short History of the. ![]()
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