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First of two volumes covers general history and topography. This is
the first of two volumes providing an authoritative and detailed
treatment of Chester's history, meticulously researched from the
original sources. It provides an account of the city from its Roman
foundation to the year 2000, arranged by chronological chapters and
covering economic, social, political, administrative, military,
religious, and cultural history. Special attention is given to
topographical development. Six chronological chapters coverthe
history of Chester by period: Roman, Early Medieval (400-1230),
Later Medieval (1230-1550), Early Modern (1550-1762), Late Georgian
and Victorian (1762-1914), and Twentieth-Century (1914-2000). The
topographies of Roman and 20th-century Chester form integral parts
of the first and last chapters. A separate chapter deals with
Topography 900-1914. The illustrations, many of which have rarely
been seen before, are arranged as a pictorial essay.CheshireV.ii:
Chester covers individual buildings, institutions, and aspects of
Chester's history. There is a full index to the whole volume,
including subjects. V.i. contains an index only of persons, places,
and buildings mentioned in this part.
Six volumes of the Victoria County History of Sussex were published
between 1905 and 1953 . Until now they have been without an index,
apart from the Domesday index included in Volume I. The present
volume is designed to make their contents far more readily
accessible, directing the reader to the pages on which places,
persons, and the principal subjects are mentioned. An essential key
is thus at last provided to the general chapters in Volumes I and
II, to the accounts of Romano-British Sussex and of the City of
Chichester in Volume III, and to the histories of the towns and
villages in the rapes of Chichester (Volume IV), Lewes (Volume
VII), and Hastings (Volume IX). Each future volume will, like that
on the southern part of Bramber rape (Volume VI, part 1) published
in 1980, contain its own index.
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY This
latest collection reflects the full range and vitality of the
current work on the Anglo-Norman period. It opens with the R. Allen
Brown Memorial Lecture for 2009, a wide-ranging reflection by the
distinguished French historian Dominique Barthelemy on the Peace of
God and the role of bishops in the long eleventh century. Economic
history is prominent in papers on the urban transformation in
England between 900 and 1100, on the roots of the royal forestin
England, and on trade links between England and Lower Normandy. A
close study of the Surrey manor of Mortlake brings in topography,
another aspect of which appears in an article on the representation
of outdoor space by Normanand Anglo-Norman chroniclers. Social
history is treated in papers dealing with the upbringing of the
children of the Angevin counts and with the developing ideas of
knighthood and chivalry in the works of Dudo of Saint-Quentin and
Benoit of Sainte-Maure. Finally, political ideas are examined
through careful reading of texts in papers on writing the rebellion
of Earl Waltheof in the twelfth century and on the use of royal
titles and prayers for the king inAnglo-Norman charters.
Contributors: Dominique Barthelemy, Kathryn Dutton, Leonie Hicks,
Richard Holt, Joanna Huntington, Laurence Jean-Marie, Dolly
Jorgensen, Max Lieberman, Stephen Marritt, Pamela Taylor
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY The
latest volume of Battle Conference proceedings emphasizes the
European range and interdisciplinarity of the series. It opens with
Anne Duggan's R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture for 2010, on the
effects of Pope Alexander III's so-called "marriage legislation" in
England. Norman history is covered by chapters on the detailed
account of Robert de Torigni's deeds as abbot of Mont Saint-Michel
which he added to the monastic cartulary, and on religious life in
Rouen in the late eleventh century, covering the rivalries but also
the common outlook of the cathedral canons and the monks of St
Ouen. Close readings of the work of two of the Anglo-Norman
historians of the earlier twelfth century provide many new insights
into their working methods and views of the world, specifically
Willam of Malmesbury's use of ambiguity and innuendo, and Orderic
Vitalis's treatment of the nexus between power and the display of
emotions. There are also two papers on art history, giving
sophisticated readings of the architecture shown in the Bayeux
Tapestry and the politically charged glazing scheme that Archbishop
Anselm installed at Canterbury cathedral. Contributors: Anne
Duggan, Alison Alexander, Richard E. Barton, Thomas N. Bisson, Paul
Hayward, T.A. Heslop, Elizabeth Carson Pastan C.P. LEWIS is a
Research Fellow in the History Department at King's College,
London, and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research
in the University of London.
The essays in this volume derive in the main, though not
exclusively, from the 13th annual conference held in Houston in
November 1994. Written by an international group of scholars, they
centre on the history of England and its neighbours during the
Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Anglo-Norman and Angevin periods. Of
particular interest is a wide-ranging and well-illustrated article
on medieval bridges; other topics include the Anglo-Norman patrons
of Bury St Edmunds, Anglo-Welsh relations before 1066, the legal
status of the Britons in seventh-century Wessex, and the Hundred
Rolls. There is also a particular focus on the roles played by
women, with articles on Henry I's queen Adeliza of Louvain, and the
Anglo-Norman countesses of Chester.Dr C.P. LEWIS teaches in the
Department of History at the University of Liverpool; Dr EMMA
COWNIE teaches in the Department of History, King's College,
London. Contents and Contributors: EMMA COWNIE, NICHOLAS BROOKS,
LOUIS M. ALEXANDER, JOHNR.E. BLIESE, FREDERICK C. SUPPE, W. SCOTT
JESSEE, H.B. TEUNIS, JULIE POTTER, LAURA WERTHEIMER, SUSAN JOHNS,
R.H. HELMHOLZ, S.F.C. MILSOM, DAVID ROFFE.
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY The
contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular
focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of
Huntingdon's representation of civil war; on the political intent
of the poems in the anonymous Life ofEdward the Confessor; on
William of Malmesbury's depiction of Henry I; and on the influence
upon historians of the late antique history attributed to
Hegesippus. A paper on Gerald of Wales and Merlin brings valuable
literary insights to bear. Other pieces tackle religious history
(northern monasteries during the Anarchy, the abbey of Tiron) and
politics (family history across the Conquest, the Norman brothers
Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser, the friendship network of King
Stephen's family). The volume begins with Judith Green's Allen
Brown Memorial Lecture, which provides a wide-ranging account of
kingship, lordsihp and community in eleventh-century England.
CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Green, Janet Burton, Catherine A.M. Clarke,
Sebastien Danielo, Emma Mason, Ad Putter, Kathleen Thompson, Jean
A. Truax, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Bjoern Weiler, Neil Wright
The latest collection of articles on Anglo-Norman topics, with a
particular focus on Wales. The 2007 conference on Anglo-Norman
Studies, the thirtieth in the annual series, was held in Wales, and
there is a Welsh flavour to the proceedings now published. Five of
the thirteen papers cover Welsh topics in the long twelfthcentury:
Church reform, political culture, the supposed resurgence of Powys
as a political entity, and interpreter families in the Marches,
besides a broad and compelling historiographical survey of the
place of the Normans in Welsh history. Twelfth-century England is
represented by papers on chivalry and kingship [in literature and
life], the Evesham surveys, lay charters, and Henry of Blois and
the arts. Essays which focus on the southern Italian city ofTrani
and on the crusader history of Ralph of Caen explore wider Norman
identities. Finally, there are two broad surveys contextualizing
the Anglo-Norman experience: on the careers of the clergy and on
how warriors were identified before heraldry. CONTRIBUTORS: HUW
PRYCE, LAURA ASHE, JULIA BARROW, HOWARD B. CLARKE, JOHN REUBEN
DAVIES, JUDITH EVERARD, NATASHA HODGSON, CHARLES INSLEY, ROBERT
JONES, PAUL OLDFIELD, DAVID STEPHENSON, FREDERICK SUPPE,JEFFREY
WEST.
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY A
particular area of interest in this volume is the landscape and
economy of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, with papers
on castles, deer parks, marshlands, fisheries, and taxation. Two
complementary papers discuss neglected aspects of the Bayeux
Tapestry: gesture, and the representation of identity and status.
Other papers survey the deaths of kings, the role of the Norman
vicomte, the estates of the king's wife in Anglo-Saxon England, and
lay piety. John Gillingham's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture considers
right conduct in battle. C.P. Lewis is Reader in History at the
Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Contributors: JOHNGILLINGHAM, STEPHEN CHURCH, MARK GARDINER, ALBAN
GAUTIER, MARK HAGGER, RYAN LAVELLE, MICHAEL LEWIS, ANDREW LOWERRE,
GALE OWEN-CROCKER, HUGH THOMAS, HIROKAZU TSURUSHIMA, ANDREW
WAREHAM, XIANG DONG WEI.
The question of what constitutes good and bad rulership in the
central middle ages, in both theory and practice, is the linking
theme in this latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal. The
nine complementary papers range widely across the Carolingian
world, Norman and Angevin England and southern Italy, and the Latin
East, exploring contemporary attitudes to rule and rulers
(especially kings), and the methods and symbolism of ruling, as
well as the reputations of individual kings in modern
historiography. Dr C.P. LEWIS teaches in the Department of History
at the University of Liverpool; Dr EMMA COWNIE teaches in the
Department of History, King's College, London. Contributors: JANET
L. NELSON, STEPHANIE MOOERS CHRISTELOW, JEAN A. TRUAX, RALPH V.
TURNER, BROCK W. HOLDEN, EMILIE AMT, G.A. LOUD, DAVID ABULAFIA,
DEBORAH GERISH
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