Originally published in 1973, Origins of English Feudalism suggests that English feudalism has, for a long time, been the most controversial and thereby the most highly technical aspect of English medieval history. The book contains relevant sources that will be of use to readers and will allow them to study documentary, literary and archaeological sources from the medieval period. The debate over the establishment of feudalism in pre-Conquest England involves not only the question of the presence or absence of fief, but also of knights and cavalry, castles and vassilic commendation. This book will be of interest to academics and the ease of use and careful division of sources, will be of interest to students.

Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. English spectators saw women players in professional and amateur contexts, in elite and popular settings, at home and abroad. Women acted in scripted and improvised roles, performed in local festive drama, and took part in dancing, singing, and masquing. English travelers saw professional actresses on the continent and Italian and French actresses visited England. Essays in this volume explore: the impact of women players outside London; the relationship between women's performance on the continent and in England; working women's participation in a performative culture of commerce; the importance of the visual record; the use of theatrical techniques by queens and aristocrats for political ends; and the role of female performance on the imitation of femininity. In short, Women Players in England 1500-1660 shows that women were dynamic cultural players in the early modern world.

Originally published in 1973, Origins of English Feudalism suggests that English feudalism has, for a long time, been the most controversial and thereby the most highly technical aspect of English medieval history. The book contains relevant sources that will be of use to readers and will allow them to study documentary, literary and archaeological sources from the medieval period. The debate over the establishment of feudalism in pre-Conquest England involves not only the question of the presence or absence of fief, but also of knights and cavalry, castles and vassilic commendation. This book will be of interest to academics and the ease of use and careful division of sources, will be of interest to students.

Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; The Umfravilles in Northumberland; Chronicon ex Chronicis; Development of Stamford; Relations between Crown and Episcopacy. M. BAYLE, M. BENNETT, D. BERNSTEIN, M. CHIBNALL, K. CIGGAAR, R.R. DARLINGTON, J. DECAENS, R. GEM, J. GREEN, S.F. HOCKEY, R.C. JOHNSTON, L. KEEN, P. McGURK, C. MAHANY, D. ROFFE, D. WALKER. 64 plates, figs.

Aquitainian Participation in the Conquest; Stereotype Normans in Vernacular Literature; Byzantine Marginalia to the Norman Conquest; Norman Architectural Patronage; Domesday Book and the Teneurial Revolution; Henry of Huntingdon and Historia Anglorum; Domesday Inquest and Land Adjudication; Abbey of Cava; Post-Conquest Attitudes to the Saints of the Anglo-Saxons; Danish Geometrical Viking Fortresses; Holy Face of Lucca. G. BEECH, M. BENNETT, K. CIGGAAR, E. FERNIE, R. FLEMING, D. GREENWAY, P. HYAMS, G.A. LOUD, S.J. RIDYARD, E. ROESDAHL, D. WEBB.34 plates, figs.

Military Administration of the Norman Conquest; Romanesque Sculpture at St Georges de Boscherville and Hyde Abbey; Seasonal Festivals and Residence in Winchester, Westminster and Gloucester; Mrs Ella Armitage and Castle Studies; Local Loyalties in Stephen's Reign; Franci et Angli: Legal Distinctions; St Bernard and England; Change and Continuity in 11c Mercia: St Wulfstan; Land and Service; Frankish Rivalries and Norse Warriors; Knights of Shaftesbury Abbey. B.S. BACHRACH, M. BAYLEE, M. BIDDLE, J. COUNIHAN, R. EALES, G. GARNETT, C. HOLDSWORTH, E. MASON, R. MORTIMER, E. SEARLE, A. WILLIAMS/.26 plates, figs.

Battle of Hastings; Seemiologie du tombeau de comte de Champagne; Romanesque Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey; Chichester Cathedral; Cluniacs in England; Battle Abbey; William fitz Osbern and Lyre Abbey; Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Honour of Clare; Norman Settlement in Dyfed; Women and Succession; Land and Power: Estates of Harold Godwineson; Danish Kings and England in 10c. R.A. BROWN, M. BUR, R. GEM, B. GOLDING, J.N. HARE, S.F. HOCKEY, E. VAN HOUTS, R. MORTIMER, I.W. ROWLANDS, E. SEARLE, A. WILLIAMS, D. WILSON

Bookland and Fyrd Service; Normans in Africa, Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean; BL Additional MS. 40,000 ff 1v-12r; Ministers in the Midlands; Aristocration autour du Bec, 1077; Naval Logistics of the Cross-Channel Operation, 1066; England and the Holy Land; William Turbe, Bishop of Norwich; Housecarls in England in 11c; Illustrations of Warfare in 11c England; Herefordshire under William I; Motte de Mirville; Aimeri of Thouars. R. ABELS, D. ABULAFIA, C. CLARK, M.J. FRANKLIN, V. GAZEAU, C. GILLMOR, A. GRABOIS, C. HARPER-BILL, N. HOOPER, J. KIFF, C. LEWIS, J. LE MAHO, J. MARTINDALE. 19 plates, figs.

A reissue of the classic guide to the origins, purpose and identity of the great castles of England and Wales, built after the arrival of the Normans. Castle studies have been shaped and defined over the past half-century by the work of R. Allen Brown. His classic English Castles, renamed here to acknowledge its definitive approach to the subject, has never been superseded by other more recent studies, and is still the foundation study of the English, and Welsh, castles built between the Norman Conquest and the mid 1500s. As the subject evolved, so too did this book, and for the most recent edition a considerable amount of French comparative material was added, though it remains essentially a study of English castles. For Allen Brown, castles were fortified residences (or residential fortresses), and developed, from European precursors, to support political and social realities as the Norman and Angevin kings secured their realm. Once these political ends had been largely met, the castle and castle-building entered a period of decline, and domesticand military interests went in opposite directions. This book, with numerous photographs and plans, remains the outstanding guide to the origins, purpose and identity of the great castles of England and Wales. R. ALLEN BROWN was also the author of The Normans, The Norman Conquest of England and The Normans and the Norman Conquest and founder of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies.

Witty and dynamic lovers' dialogues for the stage. The actress and author Isabella Andreini won international renown playing the bold, versatile, and intellectual inamorata of the commedia dell'arte. After her death, her husband Francesco Andreini continued publishing her works, among them the thirty-one amorosi contrasti-or lovers' debates- presented in this volume. Available in English for the first time, Lovers' Debates enables readers to envision the commedia dell'arte through the words of its most revered diva. Lovers flirt boldly, trade bawdy insults, exhibit their learning, and drive each other mad in stage dialogues that showcase Isabella's skill in composition and drama. Sparkling with wit and bursting with dynamic energy, these brilliant lovers' dialogues for the stage hold strong appeal not only for specialists in early modern literature and women's studies, but for enthusiasts, scholars, and practitioners of classic and contemporary theatre.

Caen, 1987: 900th anniversary of the death of William the Conqueror. S-Etienne-de-Caen; Projet de beeatification de Guillaume le Conqueerant au 16e siecle?; Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin; Bayeux Tapestry; Warhorses of thens; S-Vaast-sur-Seulles; St Anselm and William the Conqueror; Early Savignac and Cistercian Architecture in Normandy; St Anselm on Lay Investiture; Ship List of William the Conqueror; Regenbald the Chancellor; William's Bishops; Arms, Armour and Warfare; Eadmer's Historia Novorum. Contributors: M. BAYLEE, M. DE BOUARD, M. CHIBNALL, H.E.J. COWDREY, R.H.C. DAVIS, J. DECAENS, W. FROHLICH, L. GRANT, C. W. HOLLISTER, E. VAN HOUTS, S. KEYNES,H.R. LOYN, I. PEIRCE, S. VAUGHN.

The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in all genres, including tragedy. The ambitious actress reinvented the innamorata, making her more charismatic and autonomous, thrilling audiences with her skills. Despite fervent attacks, some actresses became the first international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers in France and Spain. After Elizabeth and her court caught wind of their success in Paris, Italian troupes with actresses crossed the Channel to perform. The Italians' repeat visits and growing fame posed a radical challenge to English professionals just as they were building their first paying theaters. Some writers treated the actress as a whorish threat to their stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Lyly, Marlowe, and Kyd endowed innamorata parts with hot-blooded, racialized passions, but made them self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and others followed, ringing changes on the new type in comedy, tragedy, and romance. Like the comici they recycled actress-linked theatergrams and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. In this way, the diva's prodigious virtuosity and stardom altered the horizons of playmaking even on the womanless stage. Capitalizing on the talents of boy players, the best playwrights created bold new roles endowed with her alien glamour, such as Lyly's Sapho and Pandora, Marlowe's Dido, Kyd's Bel-Imperia, Webster's Vittoria, and Shakespeare's Beatrice, Viola, Portia, Juliet, and Ophelia. Cleopatra is not alone in her superb theatricality and dazzling strangeness. As this book demonstrates, the diva's gifts mark them all.

Origins of the Justiciarship; Goltho Manor; Gesta Guillelmi; Knight Service in England; Baldwin, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds; Common Law and the French Connection; Round and his Calendar; Gens Normannorum; Rites of the Conqueror; Chateau de Feecamp; Codex Wintoniensis. D. BATES, G. BERESFORD, P. BOUET, J. GILLINGHAM, A. GRANSDEN, P. HYAMS, E. KING, G. LOUD, J. NELSON, A. RENOUX, A. RUMBLE.23 plates, figs.

AEthelwine, Pre-Conquest Sheriff; Alliances of AElfgar of Mercia; Castle Studies since 1850; Charles the Bald's Fortified Bridges; Clares and the Crown; Coastal Salt Production; Hydrographic and Ship Hydrodynamic Aspects of the Invasion; Leland and Historians; Monks in the World: Gundulf of Rochester; Obtaining Benefices in 12c E. Anglia; St Pancras Priory, Lewes; Slavery; Wace and Warfare.

R. Allen Brown selects original material - literature, legal documents, letters and objects -to present the Norman Conquest. This selection of documents offers an insight into the Norman Conquest of England from a variety of perspectives. It is divided into four parts, each dealing with evidence of a different kind: literary and narrative sources (including Norman, Old English and Anglo-Norman texts); documentary sources, such as charters, writs and leases; letters; and the art of the period, principally, though not exclusively, from the Bayeux Tapestry. Both Anglo-Saxon and Norman England are represented, and Normandy itself is the subject of one section. R. Allen Brown's general introduction supplies a broad context for the material, and commentaries are provided with the documents where necessary, explaining points of particular significance, while a select bibliography gives suggestions for further reading. All documents are provided in translation. Reprint; first published in 1984. R. ALLEN BROWNwas professor of history at King's College, London, and founder of the annual Battle conference on Anglo-Norman studies.

Bayeux Tapestry; Feudal Society in Orderic Vitalis; Sacre des rois Anglo-Normands et Angevins; Defeated Anglo-Saxons Take Service with the Eastern Emperor; Anglo-Saxon Warfare on the Eve of the Conquest; Norman Military Revolution in England; Crusading Warfare 1092-1130; Norman Conquest: 1066, 1106, 1154? Domesday Book; Norman Settlement in Wales; English Royal Succession 860-1066; 11c Romanesque Sculpture. N.P. BROOKS, M. CHIBNALL, R. FOREVILLE, J. GODFREY, N. HOOPER, D. COOK, R. HILL, J.H.LE PATOUREL, H.R. LOYN, D. WALKER, A. WILLIAMS, G. ZARNECKI. 48 plates, figs.

This edition of "As You Like It" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations. Including pastoral poetry, ballads, diatribes, jest books, tracts, emblems, maps, and woodcuts, the primary documents contextualize pastoral conventions, varieties of love, marriage, cross dressing, folly, education, and the joys and trials of rural life.

Classic work assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest in European context. The introduction of Brown's book should be made compulsory reading- LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSThe `English' who faced the forces of William duke of Normandy on 14 October 1066 were by no means a pure-bred and unified race, norwas the flower of England's manhood laid low by an army of self-seeking Norman opportunists. R. Allen Brown traces the forces and influences that shaped both England and Normandy in the decades before 1066, and shows how the new order, emerging from the aftermath of the battle of Hastings, produced a degree of political unity and social dynamism previously unknown in England, bringing a reinvigorated nation fully into the mainstream of the dynamic expansion of western Latin Christendom.R. ALLEN BROWN was professor of History at King's College, London and founder of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman studies.

Battles in England and Normandy 1066-1154; Philip II's Fortress Policy in Normandy; Order of Sempringham; Anselm's Letters; Henry I, War and Diplomacy; Introduction of Knight Service in England; Scandinavian nfluence in 11th-Century Norman Literature; Gesta Normannorum; Architectural implications of Decreta Lanfranci; William and the Church of Rome; Lincoln Cathedral; Lewes Group' of Wall Paintings; Knights Templar at Shipley Church. J. BRADBURY, C. COULSON, R. FOREVILLE, W. FRcHLICH, C.W. HOLLISTER, J.C. HOLT, E. VAN HOUTS, G. HUISMAN, A.W. KLUKAS, P.A. MACCARINI, D. OWEN, D. PARK, R. GEM.30 plates, figs.