Karel R. van Kooij (ed.), ABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index

Indo-Iranian Journal -     

The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless,Duke of Normandy (r. 942–996)

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.     

R. BRIAN SAGAR (1927 - 1990)

Brian Sagar died of cancer in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 12, 1990. The illness preceding his death was mercifully brief but it also left his colleagues and many friends across Canada and elsewhere quite unprepared for this sudden tragedy.