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The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world. The
contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and
vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety
of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture
and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of
Duke Richard II and Abbot John of Fecamp in early Normandy;
political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin
courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of
Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's
motivation for his Historia Regum Britonum; twelfth-century legal
scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law
texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal acta from the
south-western Norman dioceses. Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre
Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara
Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen,
Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine Weikert
Medievalists have long taught that highly emotional Christian
devotion, often called 'affective piety', appeared in Europe after
the twelfth century and was primarily practiced by communities of
mendicants, lay people and women. Emotional monasticism challenges
this view. The first study of affective piety in an
eleventh-century monastic context, it traces the early history of
affective devotion through the life and works of the earliest known
writer of emotional prayers, John of Fecamp, abbot of the Norman
monastery of Fecamp from 1028-78. Exposing the early medieval
monastic roots of later medieval affective piety, the book casts a
new light on the devotional life of monks in Europe before the
twelfth century and redefines how medievalists should teach the
history of Christianity. -- .
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