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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 continuity of the conquest : Charlemagne and Anglo-Norman imperialism
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' approach to ruling, 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 problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history.
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The Water Analogy in Selected Emirati Fiction: A New Intertextual and Stylistic Approach/Analogija vode v izbrani emiratski prozi: nov medbesedilni in stilisticni pristop
This paper critically examines the stylistic and narrative structures of selected novels and stories by UAE authors through the lens of contemporary intertextuality theories to explore the significance of incorporating water motifs in modern Emirati fiction. The paper argues that contemporary Emirati writers have borrowed various patterns of water-related discourses deeply rooted in popular culture and the local history of the Arabian Gulf region, integrating them into their literary works for thematic and aesthetic purposes. The paper analyzes renowned works such as Shahinda by Rashid Abdullah, The Sword and the Flower and The Trilogy of Love, Water, and Dust by Ali Abu Al-Reesh, The Scent of Ginger by Salha Ghabesh, and On the Edge of Day by Abdul Hamid Ahmad to investigate the sophisticated use of intertextuality in the indigenous maritime literature of the UAE. By employing intertextuality as a literary device, notable Emirati authors use water--in its various forms--as a central motif in their fiction to strengthen national identity, uphold domestic traditions, and reconstruct a heritage jeopardized by modernization and globalization. Keywords: water motive, intertextuality, literature of the UAE Clanek kriticno preucuje slogovne in pripovedne strukture izbranih romanov in zgodb avtorjev iz ZAE skozi prizmo sodobnih teorij intertekstualnosti, da bi raziskal pomen vkljucevanja motiva vode v sodobno emiratsko leposlovje. Avtor trdi, da so si sodobni emiratski pisatelji izposodili razlicne vzorce z vodo povezanih diskurzov, ki so globoko zakoreninjeni v ljudski kulturi in lokalni zgodovini regije Arabskega zaliva in ki so jih iz tematskih in estetskih vzrokov vkljucili v svoja literarna dela. Clanek analizira znana literarna dela, kot so Shahinda Rashida Abdullaha, The Sword and the Flower in The Trilogy of Love, Water, and Dust Alija Abuja Al-Reesha, The Scent of Ginger Salha Ghabesha in On the Edge of Day Abdula Hamida Ahmada, da bi pokazal prefinjeno uporabo intertekstualnosti v avtohtoni literaturi ZAE povezani z motivom vode. Z uporabo intertekstualnosti kot literarnega sredstva vidni emiratski avtorji namrec uporabljajo vodo - v njenih razlicnih oblikah - kot osrednji motiv v svojem leposlovju, da bi okrepili nacionalno identiteto, ohranili domace tradicije in obnovili dedi cino, ki sta jo ogrozili modernizacija in globalizacija. Kljucne besede: motiv vode, medbesedilnost, knji evnost Zdru enih arabskih emiratov
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