Dan Sumption’s Reviews > The Normans in the South, 1016-1130 > Status Update

Some very dodgy opinions in this book. Can it really be that, scarcely 20 years after the Holocaust, Norwich writes of the Normans as "so energetic and gifted a race". A master race, perhaps? Or that "among other, less commendable motives, there was certainly a spark of the crusader spirit" in attempts to exterminate the"infidel" Saracens of Sicily? Because killing people for religious reasons is commendable, right?