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Normans
What I’ve been reading (2023-03-28)

1. Judith A. Green, The Normans: Power, Conquest & Culture in 11th-Century Europe .  A very clear and to the point book on a complex topic.  This is a good one to read with GPT-4 accompaniment for your queries.  In Sicily, near Palermo, the Normans produced one of my favorite sites in all of Europe .

What I’ve been reading (2023-01-18)

4. Judith A. Green, The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe .  The best book on the Normans?  And what an opening set of sentences: “In the eleventh century the climate was improving, population was growing, and people were on the move, west from central Asia, and south from north-western Europe.  In 1054 the unity of Christianity between east and west was broken, a rift which lasted for centuries.  In 1096 the idea of recovering Jerusalem from Muslims was translated into...

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