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Empires of the Normans : conquerors of Europe
How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce freebooters, of fortunes made and fortunes lost. The Normans made their influence felt across all of western Europe and the Mediterranean, from the British Isles to North Africa, and Lisbon to the Holy Land. In Empires of the Normans we discover how they combined military might and political savvy with deeply held religious beliefs and a profound sense of their own destiny. For a century and a half, they remade Europe in their own image, and yet their heritage was quickly forgotten - until now.
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The Normans
A bold new history of the rise and expansion of the Norman
Dynasty across Europe from Byzantium to England In the
eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing,
and people were on the move. The Norman dynasty ranged across
Europe, led by men who achieved lasting fame like William the
Conqueror and Robert Guiscard. These figures cultivated an image of
unstoppable Norman success and their victories make for a great
story, but how much of it is true? In this insightful history,
Judith Green challenges old certainties and explores the reality of
Norman life across the continent. There were many soldiers of
fortune, but their successes were down to timing, good luck, and
ruthless leadership. Green shows the Normans' profound impact, from
drastic change in England to laying the foundations for unification
in Sicily, to their contribution to the First Crusade. Going beyond
the familiar, she looks at personal dynastic relationships and the
important part women played in what at first sight seems a
resolutely masculine world.
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The Defiance of Wilderness
This article examines the multifaceted material and ideological significance of the United States’s Great Dismal Swamp in the colonial and Antebellum South (1728–1860), particularly in the lives and imaginations of Southern whites, enslaved individuals, and Maroons. I argue that the swamp functioned simultaneously as a site of exploitation, sanctuary, and resistance, roles deeply tied to the labor performed within its boundaries and to the Maroon communities it sheltered. By analyzing the swamp’s symbolic construction as a “wilderness,” this study reveals its opposition to the capitalist, hierarchical logic of the plantation system and underscores its role as a space of both refuge and defiance.
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
This article explores the subversion of the American dream in contemporary Black horror cinema, whereby the American dream is rendered inaccessible due to the historical, cultural, political, and geospatial legacies of the plantation and chattel slavery. Analyzing Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017), Antebellum (Christopher Renz and Gerard Bush, 2020), and Bad Hair (Justin Simien, 2022), it uses a surrealism-hyperrealism-realism framework to consider the films’ portrayals of the Black, lived experience and the historical contingencies of Black anxiety, ultimately transforming the American dream into the American nightmare.
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