Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Aspects of the Normans in Southern Italy, Sicily & North Africa

The Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Aspects of the Normans in Southern Italy, Sicily, and North Africa

Many historians are familiar with the date 1066 CE. During that time, the Normans who settled in the lands along the Mediterranean Sea entered a world that was vastly different from life along the English channel. No longer would the issues that plagued their native Normandy affect them, instead travelling to foreign lands for conquest and lands to call their own. Around the time they entered through the Strait of Gibraltar, the lands were vastly diverse in culture, religion, politics, and trade. The Normans encountered native Italians, Germanic Lombards, Byzantine Greeks, Sunni Berbers, and other local sociocultural groups that had been in the region for at least a century. Each region the Normans encountered provided a different experience and approach to how they ruled the region. This project aims to go over the Normans in the Mediterranean, observing each of the three domains mentioned while going over a developing theory I have researched and implemented for the project.

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