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  • Roots from 750 AD (or CE)
    • The roots of the Normans
    • The Norsemen as travellers and traders
  • From the North to the East and the establishment of the Rus’
    • Scandinavian trade activities and “immigration” along rivers
    • The war in Ukraine and its consequences
    • The formation and rise of the Rus’
    • Religion and rule in the Kyivan Rus’
    • Warriors for Byzantium – of Varangians and the Varangian Guard
  • From Norsemen to Normans 800–1200
    • The arrival of the Norsemen in Normandy: from looters to settlers
    • Rollo and the “birth” of Normandy: fact and fiction
    • The Dukes of Normandy and their centres of power
  • England between Vikings and Normans 850–1150
    • Anglo-Scandinavian and Norman links prior to 1066
    • Emma of Normandy - England’s first Norman queen
    • 1066 and the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England
    • Consolidation of political power in England
    • Norman rule after William “the Conqueror” and Matilda’s grasp for the crown
    • The Norman way of life
    • Norman mobility
  • Routes to the Mediterranean Iberian Peninsula 1000–1200
    • The Iberian Peninsula as a melting pot
    • Roger Tosny and the first Normans in the service of the “Reconquista”
    • Rotrou Count of Perche
    • Robert Burdet and the Principate of Tarragona
    • Mediterranean interconnections
  • Routes to the Mediterranean The Italian South 1000–1250
    • Between pilgrimage and mercenarism – the struggle for rule in Southern Italy
    • The Drengots and the rise of the Hautevilles
    • The establishment of power: Robert Guiscard and Roger until the conquest of Sicily
    • Roger I and the establishment of Norman rule in Sicily
    • Adelasia del Vasto – Palermo as the capital city
    • The road to kingship: Roger II and the Sicilian syncretism
    • The end of an era? Sicily’s Norman heritage
  • Routes to the Mediterranean Byzantium, the Holy Land and Ifrîqiya
    • Byzantium – model, rival, and “object of desire”
    • The Normans in the Holy Land
    • Norman adventures in North Africa

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