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Definition of Normans
1. norman [n] - See also: norman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Normans
Literary usage of Normans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"By the end of the 12th century the normans in England might fairly pass as
Englishmen, and they had largely adopted the use of the English language. ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England by Edward Augustus Freeman (1873)
"To decide whether the normans or the English of that age had made the more real
advances ... The native normans, once the kinsmen of Danes and Englishmen, ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"But in the view of general history normans and Northmen must be carefully
distinguished. The change in the name is the sign of a thorough change, ..."
4. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"EXTINCTION OF THE normans THE three great nations of the world, the Greeks, the
Saracens, and the Franks, encountered each other on the theatre of Italy.1 ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1838)
"A PRECEDING volume containing a view of the Architecture of the normans in ...
The normans in Sicily : being a Sequel to " an Architectural Tow in Normandy. ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1867)
"The normans of Apulia were seated on the verge of the two empires; and, according
to the policy of the hour, they accepted the investiture of their lands ..."
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