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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.
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