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- Title
The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy (r. 942-996).
- Authors
McNair, Fraser
- Abstract
In 966, by the end of the reign of its third duke, Richard I, Normandy had overcome the crises that had beset it in the middle of the century. Much of this success came from the coherence of its ruling group, which expressed itself partly in terms of ' Norman' identity. This article uses Dudo's history of the dukes and Richard's charters to argue that ' Norman' as a political identity was a deliberate creation of the court of Richard I in the 960s, following the perceived failure of his and his father's policies of assimilation into Frankish culture.
- Subjects
FRANKISH law; RICHARD I, King of England, 1157-1199; NORMANDY, Dukes of; HISTORY of Normandy, France; FRENCH politics &; government
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 3, p308
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12106