The Normans in European History (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Charles Homer Haskins

Overview

Norman influence pervaded Europe in the early Middle Ages.  Haskins traces that influence using meticulous research and his insightful analysis in The Normans in European History (1915), to show how the modern nation-state is in many ways the heir of Norman culture and civilization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411439177
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	297 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1937) was America’s premier historian of the Middle-Ages.  A child prodigy, he mastered Latin and Greek as a boy and received his Ph.D. in history at the age of twenty.  He advised his friend President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.  His best known work is The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (1927).