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.

'This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer,...