Irina Dumitrescu is an essayist and professor of medieval English literature at the University of Bonn.

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The Norman conquest of the European imagination

It’s hard to say who, exactly, the Normans were – but even harder to make them out as a model migrants and proto-Europeans as a string of recent exhibitions has tried to do

29 Aug 2023

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