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Episode 9 - The Rise of Robert Guiscard
FromNorman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth
Episode 9 - The Rise of Robert Guiscard
FromNorman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Jul 22, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Robert Guiscard arrived in Italy as a simple knight, hoping to benefit from his brother's wealth and power. Instead he found his path blocked at every turn by petty jealousy and was sent off to rot in the most inhospitable place his sibling could think of. From these difficult beginnings, against the odds, Robert would build a base of power so formidable that not even the combined strength of a Pope and two Emperors could prevail against it. Join Lars Brownworth as he looks at the early career of the most brilliant general the Normans ever produced.
Released:
Jul 22, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (20)
Episode 1 - Rollo and the Viking Age: They were the great success story of the Middle Ages, a footloose band of individual adventurers who appeared out of nowhere to blaze across the face of Dark Age Europe. In the course of two centuries the Normans launched a series of extraordinary conquests, transforming Anglo-Saxon England into Great Britain, setting up a powerful Crusader state in Antioch, and turning Palermo into the dazzling cultural and economic capital of the western Mediterranean. Their story, however, begins rather humbly in the fierce Viking Age, when a group of Scandinavian raiders came crashing into Charlemagne's empire. Join Lars Brownworth as he follows the ferocious warrior Rollo, the first Norman, who began life as a simple raider and ended it as a great lord of the West. by Norman Centuries | A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth