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Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and Marie de France’s Fables

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This chapter examines Norman identity and diaspora comparatively, through texts composed in Sicily and England.

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  1. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993 ).

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

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Akbari, S.C. (2008). Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and Marie de France’s Fables. In: Cohen, J.J. (eds) Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614123_2

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