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"A series which is a model of its kind": Edmund King This year's
volume is made up of articles that were presented at the conference
in Bonn, held under the auspices of the University. In this volume,
Alheydis Plassmann, the Allen Brown Memorial lecturer, analyses how
two contemporary commentators reported the events of their day, the
contest between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror as they
struggled for supremacy in England and Normandy during the 1140s.
The Marjorie Chibnall Essay prize winner, Laura Bailey, examines
the geographical spaces occupied by the exile in The Gesta
Herewardi and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Andrea Stieldorf compares the
seals and the coins of Germany/Lotharingia in the tenth, eleventh,
and twelfth centuries with those made in England, exploring the
ideas embedded in the iconography of the two connected visual
sources. Domesday Book forms the focus of two important new
studies, one by Rory Naismith looking at the moneyers to be found
in Domesday, adding substantially to the information gained on this
important group of artisans, and one by Chelsea Shields-Más on the
sheriffs of Edward the Confessor, giving us new insights into the
key officials in the royal administration. Elisabeth van Houts
examines the life of Empress Matilda before she returned to her
father's court in 1125 throwing new light on Matilda's "German"
years, while Laura Wangerin looks at how tenth-century Ottonian
women used communication to further their political goals. Steven
Vanderputten takes the challenge of thinking about religious change
at the turn of the Millennium through the lens of the Life of John,
Abbot of Gorze Abbey, by John of Saint-Arnoul. Benjamin Pohl looks
at the role of the abbot in prompting monk-historians to embark on
their historiographical tasks through the work of one individual
chronicler, Andreas of Marchiennes, responsible for writing, at his
abbot's behest, the Chronicon Marchianense. And Megan Welton
explores the implications of honorific titles through an
examination of the title dux as it was attached to two
tenth-century women rulers. The volume offers a wide range of
insightful essays which add considerably to our understanding of
the central middle ages.
A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King The wide-ranging
articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent
Anglo-Norman scholarship. There is a particular focus on historical
sources for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and especially on
the key texts which are used by historians in understanding the
past. There are articles on Eadmer's Historia Novorum, Dudo of
Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum, the historical profession at
Durham, and the use of charters to understand the role of women in
the Norman march of Wales. Other contributions examine canon law in
late twelfth-century England, and Angevin rule in Normandy in the
time of Henry fitz Empress. The Old English world is also
represented in the volume: there is a fresh investigation into
Harold Godwineson's posthumous reputation, and a new interpretation
of the reign of Aethelred the Unready. S.D. CHURCH is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Contributors:
Emma Cavell, Catherine Cubitt, John Gillingham, Mark Hagger, Fraser
McNair, Charles C. Rozier, Nicholas Ruffini-Ronzani, Danica
Summerlin, Ann Williams
The most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth centuries. The essays collected here demonstrate the rich
vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular
focus on the interrelations between the various parts of
north-western Europe. After the opening piece on Lotharingia, there
are detailed studies of the relationship between Ponthieu and its
Norman neighbours, and between the Norman and Angevin duke-kings
and the other French nobility, followed by an investigation of the
world of demons and possession in Norman Italy, with additional
observations on the subject in twelfth-century England. Meanwhile,
the York massacre of the Jews in 1190 is set in a wider context,
showing the extent to which crusader enthusiasm led to the pogroms
that so marred Anglo-Jewish relations, not just in York but
elsewhere in England; and there is an exploration of poverty in
London, also during the 1190s, viewed through the prism of the life
and execution of William fitz Osbert. Another chapter demonstrates
the power of comparative history to illuminate the norms of
proprietary queenship, so often overlooked by historians of both
kingship and queenship. And two essays focusing on landscape bring
the physical into close association with the historical: on the
equine landscape of eleventh and twelfth-century England, adding
substantially to our understanding of the place of the horse in
late Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman societies, and on the Brut
narratives of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Lazamon, arguing that
they use realistic landscapes in their depiction of the action
embedded in their tales, so demonstrating the authors' grasp of the
practical realities of contemporary warfare and the role played by
landscapes in it.
Who wrote about the past in the Middle Ages, who read about it, and
how were these works disseminated and used? History was a subject
popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The
volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled
by the kings of England, particularly from the 12th century, has
long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars.
This collection of essays returns to the processes involved in
writing history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript
sources in which the works of such historians survive. It explores
the motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages
(such as Orderic Vitalis, John of Worcester, Symeon of Durham,
William of Malmesbury, Gerald of Wales, Roger of Howden, and
Matthew Paris), and the evidence provided by manuscripts for the
circumstances in which copies were made.
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King John - New Interpretations (Paperback)
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The most recent ideas and arguments from leading historians of
John's reign. The reign of King John (1199-1216) is one of the most
controversial in English history. When he succeeded to Richard the
Lionheart's lands, he could legitimately claim to rule half modern
France as well as England and Ireland; butby the time of his death
his dominion lay in tatters, and his subjects had banded together
to restrict his powers as king under the Magna Carta and to
overthrow him in favour of the son of the king of France. Over the
centuries his reign has provided politicians and historians with
fertile ground for inspiration and argument, and this volume adds
to the debate, offering the most recent ideas and arguments from
leading historians on the subject, and covering all the major
issues involved. It is coherently formulated around explorations of
the two major events of his reign: the loss of his continental
inheritance, and the ending of his reign in the disaster of civil
war. Topicscover all aspects of his life and career, from his
reputation, the economy, the Norman aristocracy, the Church,
Justice and the Empire, to his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine and his
wife Isabella of Angouleme. It will be essential reading for all
interested in one of the most significant periods of English
history. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, J.L. BOLTON, JIM BRADBURY,SEAN
DUFFY, A.A.M. DUNCAN, NATALIE FRYDE, JOHN GILLINGHAM, CHRISTOPHER
HARPER-BILL, PAUL LATIMER, JANE MARTINDALE, V.D. MOSS, DANIEL
POWER, IFOR W. ROWLANDS, RALPH V. TURNER, NICHOLAS VINCENT.
Professor S.D. CHURCH teaches in the Department of History at the
University of East Anglia.
This text contains the essence of Thomas Church's design
philosophy, as well as practical advice. It is illustrated by site
plans and photographs of some of the 2000 gardens that Church
designed during his career.;Called "the last great traditional
designer and the first great modern designer", Church was one of
the central figures in the development of the modern Californian
garden. For the first time, West Coast designers based their work
not on imitation of East Coast traditions, but on climatic,
landscape and lifestyle characteristics unique to California and
the West. Church viewed the garden as a logical extension of the
house, with one extending naturally into the other.
One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new
light on old arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM The
articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of
this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure
of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader diplomacy.
Other chapters consider the ceremony of knighting and the
coronation ritual of Matilda of Flanders. There are also
investigations of hunting landscapes in Cheshire, and Lancashire
before Lancashire in the context of the Irish Sea World, while
lordship is examined in two contexts, in post-Conquest England and
early thirteenth-century Le Mans and Chartres. The sources for our
knowledge of the period, as always, receive attention, whether
drawn from documentary evidence or material culture, with essays on
universal chronicle-writing and the construction of the Galfridian
past in the Continuatio Ursicampina; the coinage of Harold II; and
the patronage of the Bayeux Tapestry by Odo of Bayeux.
Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics: A Stoic Approach to Social
Justice proffers Stoicism as a more constructive approach to social
justice activism than Critical Social Justice, the current core
framework for social justice activism in the 21st-century. Critical
Social Justice examines ideologies that underlie the stratification
of society in ways that confer ongoing benefits to some groups at
the expense of other groups and aims for a radical reshaping of
prevailing institutions because they purportedly, and irredeemably,
underlie a set of norms, beliefs, and attitudes which will continue
to perpetuate social inequalities if we do not undertake efforts to
rethink, disrupt, and restructure society. Stoicism, the ancient
Greek and Roman philosophy, is chosen specifically to help navigate
the contentious discourse on "systemic" power and privilege which
dominates the Critical Social Justice paradigm. In emphasizing
intent over impact, as well as the distinction between the
circumstances of our lives and the living of our lives, the Stoic
approach highlights the vital importance of reason and virtue in
achieving a connection between the individualistic concern with
cultivation of a good character and the collective concern with
making the world a better place.
This edition represents a remarkable survival of the detail by
which a member of the armoured class of late thirteenth-century
Suffolk chose to provide for one of his younger sons. The Pakenham
cartulary for the manor of Ixworth Thorpe in Suffolk is one of the
few secular medieval cartularies to survive. It is especially
deserving of attention for its demonstration of the importance
families of the Pakenhamclass attached to the provision of
inheritances for their younger sons. Thomas of Pakenham, the man
for whom the cartulary was composed, was the second son of the
knight Sir William of Pakenham; his elder brother Edmund was the
main beneficiary of their father's estate, but it is clear that Sir
William wished to provide for all his sons: the manor of Ixworth
Thorpe was Thomas's inheritance. The charters collected in this
cartulary represent the assets of Sir William in the vill,
accumulated over a period of about fifty years, plus acquisitions
made by Thomas after his father's death. Dr S.D. CHURCH is Senior
Lecturer in History, University of East Anglia.
Cumulatively [the volumes] are of increasing value as repositories
of scholarship on the multi-dimensional subject of knighthood ...
highly informative and useful. ALBION Studies treating a wide
variety of aspects of knighthood. Topics include the way in which
the word "knight" has been used, studying the terminology and
ritual concerned with "making a knight"; the circumstances and
implications ofthe knighting of the social elite of England between
1066 and 1272; the difficulties of distinguishing between knight
and clerk, as exemplified by Abelard's multi-faceted image; the
debt which Geoffrey de Charny's treatise on chivalry owes to the
ideas and ideals of knighthood in Arthurian prose romances; and the
linguistic competence of the twelfth-century knightly classes as
courtly audience of troubadour song. There are also important
contributions onthe warhorse; and on the fortifications of
fourteenth-century English towns, arguing that they were more the
expression of bourgeois aspirations than a response to serious
military threat. Professor STEPHEN CHURCH teaches in the Department
of History, University of East Anglia; Dr RUTH HARVEY is lecturer
in French, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. Contributors:
RICHARD BARBER, MATTHEW BENNETT, JONATHAN BOULTON, MICHAEL CLANCHY,
CHARLES COULSON, RUTH HARVEY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, AD PUTTER
The contexts for the works of eleventh and twelfth-century
historians are here brought to the fore. History was a subject
popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The
volume and richness of historical writing in the lands controlled
by the kings of England, particularly from the twelfth century, has
long attracted the attention of historians and literary scholars,
whilst editions of works by such writers as Orderic Vitalis, John
of Worcester, Symeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Gerald of
Wales, Roger of Howden, and Matthew Paris has made them well known.
Yet the easy availability of modern editions obscures both the
creation and circulation of histories in the Middle Ages. This
collection of essays returns to the processes involved in writing
history, and in particular to the medieval manuscript sources in
which the works of such historians survive. It explores the
motivations of those writing about the past in the Middle Ages, and
the evidence provided by manuscripts for the circumstances in which
copies were made. It also addresses the selection of material for
copying, combinations of text and imagery, and the demand for
copies of particular works, shedding new light on how and why
history was being read, reproduced, discussed, adapted, and
written. LAURA CLEAVER is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies,
Institute of English Studies, University of London; ANDREA WORM is
Professor of Art History. Kunsthistorischen Institut, Eberhard
Karls University, Tubingen. Contributors: Stephen Church, Kathryn
Gerry, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Laura Pani, Charles C. Rozier, Gleb
Schmidt, Laura Slater, Michael Staunton, Caoimhe Whelan, Andrea
Worm
Virtue in an Age of Identity Politics: A Stoic Approach to Social
Justice proffers Stoicism as a more constructive approach to social
justice activism than Critical Social Justice, the current core
framework for social justice activism in the 21st-century. Critical
Social Justice examines ideologies that underlie the stratification
of society in ways that confer ongoing benefits to some groups at
the expense of other groups and aims for a radical reshaping of
prevailing institutions because they purportedly, and irredeemably,
underlie a set of norms, beliefs, and attitudes which will continue
to perpetuate social inequalities if we do not undertake efforts to
rethink, disrupt, and restructure society. Stoicism, the ancient
Greek and Roman philosophy, is chosen specifically to help navigate
the contentious discourse on "systemic" power and privilege which
dominates the Critical Social Justice paradigm. In emphasizing
intent over impact, as well as the distinction between the
circumstances of our lives and the living of our lives, the Stoic
approach highlights the vital importance of reason and virtue in
achieving a connection between the individualistic concern with
cultivation of a good character and the collective concern with
making the world a better place.
The theory of white fragility is one of the most influential ideas
to emerge in recent years on the topics of race, racism, and racial
inequality. White fragility is defined as an unwillingness on the
part of white people to engage in the difficult conversations
necessary to address racial inequality. This "fragility" allegedly
undermines the fight against racial inequality. Despite its wide
acclaim and rapid acceptance, the theory of white fragility has
received no serious and sustained scrutiny. This book argues that
the theory is flawed on numerous fronts. The theory functions as a
divisive rhetorical device to shut down debate. It relies on the
flawed premise of implicit bias. It posits a faulty way of
understanding racism. It has serious methodological problems. It
conflates objectivity and neutrality. It exploits narrative at the
expense of facts. It distorts many of the ideas upon which the
theory relies. This book also offers a more constructive way to
think about Whiteness, white privilege, and "white fragility,"
pointing us to a more promising vision for addressing racial
inequality.
The theory of white fragility is one of the most influential ideas
to emerge in recent years on the topics of race, racism, and racial
inequality. White fragility is defined as an unwillingness on the
part of white people to engage in the difficult conversations
necessary to address racial inequality. This "fragility" allegedly
undermines the fight against racial inequality. Despite its wide
acclaim and rapid acceptance, the theory of white fragility has
received no serious and sustained scrutiny. This book argues that
the theory is flawed on numerous fronts. The theory functions as a
divisive rhetorical device to shut down debate. It relies on the
flawed premise of implicit bias. It posits a faulty way of
understanding racism. It has serious methodological problems. It
conflates objectivity and neutrality. It exploits narrative at the
expense of facts. It distorts many of the ideas upon which the
theory relies. This book also offers a more constructive way to
think about Whiteness, white privilege, and "white fragility,"
pointing us to a more promising vision for addressing racial
inequality.
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