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First full-length collection on one of the most significant and
influential historians of the medieval period. The Gesta
Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are
widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European
historical writing and, as such, are essential sources of medieval
history forstudents and scholars alike. The essays here consider
Orderic's life and works, presenting new research on existing
topics within Orderic studies and opening up new directions for
future analysis and debate. They offer fresh interpretations from
across the disciplines of medieval manuscript studies,
English-language studies, archaeology, theology, and cultural
memory studies; they also revisit established readings. Charles C.
Rozier gained hisPhD from the University of Durham; Daniel Roach
gained his PhD from the University of Exeter; Giles E.M. Gasper is
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham; Elizabeth van
Houts is Honorary Professor of Medieval European History,
University of Cambridge. Contributors: William M. Aird, Emily Albu,
James G. Clark, Vincent Debiais, Mark Faulkner, Giles E. M. Gasper,
Veronique Gazeau, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisabeth Megier, Thomas
O'Donnell, Benjamin Pohl, Daniel Roach, Thomas Roche, Charles C.
Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Kathleen Thompson, Elisabeth van
Houts, Anne-Sophie Vigot,Jenny Weston
Study of the Norman World's borders, frontiers, and boundaries in
Europe, shedding fresh light on their nature and extent. The
Normans exerted great influence across Christendom and beyond in
the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Figures like William the
Conqueror and Robert Guiscard subdued vast territories, their feats
recorded for posterity by chroniclers such as Orderic Vitalis and
Geoffrey Malaterra. Through travel and conquest, the Normans
encountered, created, and conceptualised many borders, with the
areas of Europe that they ruled and most affected often being
grouped together as the "Norman World". This volume examines the
nature, forms, and function of borders in and around this "Norman
World", looking at Normandy, the British-Irish Isles, and Southern
Italy. Three sections frame the collection. The first concerns
physical features, from broad frontier expanses, to rivers and
walls that were both literally and metaphorically lines of
division. The second shows how borders were established, contested,
and negotiated between the papacy and lay rulers and senior
churchmen. Finally, the third highlights the utility of conceptual
frontiers for both medieval authors and modern historians. Among
the subjects covered are Archbishop Anselm's travels across
Christendom; the portrayal of borders in the writings of William of
Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Gerald of Wales; and the limits of
Norman seigneurial and papal power at the edges of Europe. Overall,
the essays demonstrate the role that the manipulation of borders
played in the creation of the "Norman World", and address what
these borders did and whom they benefited.
Britain and its Neighbours explores instances and periods of
cultural contact and exchanges between communities in Britain with
those in other parts of Europe between c.500 and 1700.
Collectively, the twelve case studies highlight certain aspects of
cultural contact and exchange and present neglected factors,
previously overlooked evidence, and new methodological approaches.
The discussions draw from a broad range of disciplines including
archaeology, history, art history, iconography, literature,
linguistics, and legal history in order to shine new light on a
multi-faceted variety of expressions of the equally diverse and
long-standing relations between Britain and its neighbours.
Organised chronologically, the volume accentuates the consistency
and continuity of social, cultural, and intellectual connections
between Britain and Continental Europe in a period that spans over
a millennium. With its range of specialised topics, Britain and its
Neighbours is a useful resource for undergraduates, postgraduates,
and scholars interested in cultural and intellectual studies and
the history of Britain's long-standing connections to Europe.
Britain and its Neighbours explores instances and periods of
cultural contact and exchanges between communities in Britain with
those in other parts of Europe between c.500 and 1700.
Collectively, the twelve case studies highlight certain aspects of
cultural contact and exchange and present neglected factors,
previously overlooked evidence, and new methodological approaches.
The discussions draw from a broad range of disciplines including
archaeology, history, art history, iconography, literature,
linguistics, and legal history in order to shine new light on a
multi-faceted variety of expressions of the equally diverse and
long-standing relations between Britain and its neighbours.
Organised chronologically, the volume accentuates the consistency
and continuity of social, cultural, and intellectual connections
between Britain and Continental Europe in a period that spans over
a millennium. With its range of specialised topics, Britain and its
Neighbours is a useful resource for undergraduates, postgraduates,
and scholars interested in cultural and intellectual studies and
the history of Britain's long-standing connections to Europe.
Essays illuminate a wide range of topics from the Middle Ages, from
the seals of an empress to priests' wives and the undead. This
volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates the Society's
continued engagement with historical and interdisciplinary research
from the early to the central Middle Ages on a broad range of
topics including militarism, piety, the miraculous and the
monstrous. Chapters explore material culture through a mythic
eleventh-century papal banner and the seals and coins of the
Empress Matilda; offer new insights into Carolingian hagiography
and into the undead in the Historia rerum Anglicarum. Further
chapters feature new evidence on the role of priests' wives, the
tensions of multiple lordships, shifting identities in the Irish
Sea world, and the didactic use of royal anger. A fresh examination
of Aelred of Rievaulx's Relatio de Standaro and a re-assessment of
Flemish documentary practice continue the Haskins Society's
commitment to primary source analysis. Two essays on the thirteenth
century, including links between Crusade spirituality and lay
penitential strategies and an investigation into the economic costs
of waging war, round out the volume. Contributors: DAN ARMSTRONG,
DAVID S. BACHRACH, DANIEL M. BACHRACH, JILLIAN M. BJERKE, HANNAH
BOSTON, MARIAH COOPER, FIONA J. GRIFFITHS, JESSE M. HARRINGTON,
JEAN-FRANCOIS NIEUS, ALICE RIO, CHARITY URBANSKI, PATRICK WADDEN,
MEGHAN WOOLLEY, LU ZUO
Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh
and twelfth centuries. The essays collected here embody the Haskins
Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research
on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds, but also on
thecontinent. Their topics range from the discovery of Bede's use
of catechesis to educate readers on conversion, the discovery of an
early eleventh-century Viking mass burial, and historical
interpretations of Eadric Streona, to the development of monastic
liturgy at Durham Cathedral, the Franco-centricity of Latin
accounts of the First Crusade, and an investigation of Gerald of
Wales' rarely considered Speculum duorum virorum. Contributions on
the charters of the countesses of Ponthieu and Blanche of Navarre's
role in military dimensions of governance explore the nature and
mechanisms of female lordship on the continent, while others
investigate the nature of kingship through close readings,
respectively, of John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury and
the Vie de Saint Gilles; a further chapter considers the changing
image of William the Conqueror in nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century French historiography. Finally, a study of Serlo
of Bayeux's defense of clerical marriage, along with a critical
edition and facing translation of his poem The Capture of Bayeux
offers readers new insights and access tothis often overlooked
witness to Norman history in the early twelfth century.
Contributors: Angela Boyle, Marcus Bull, Philippa Byrne, Jay Paul
Gates, Veronique Gazeau, Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, Elizabeth van
Houts, Kathy M. Krause, Charlie Rozier, Katrin E. Sjursen, Carolyn
Twomey, Emily A. Winkler
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
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.
New insights into interpretive problems in the history of England
and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. The
articles in this volume of the Haskins Society Journal take the
reader from early England to the thirteenth century, from Europe to
the Holy Land. Chapters explore issues of Anglo-Saxon social status
and settlement andpeasant agency in the France of King Louis IX;
while, through a careful re-examination of documentary and
narrative evidence, further articles offer new insights into
succession crises in England and the Principality of Antioch, with
special attention to the role of women in the assumption of
political power and its narration. The record and moral horizons of
both First and Fourth Crusaders also receive close attention; and
finally, a survey of the construction of the Norman past in the
French Chronique de Normandie rounds out the collection.
CONTRIBUTORS: Mark E. Blincoe, Andrew D. Buck, Wim de Clercq,
Theodore Evergates, Alex Hurlow, William Chester Jordan, Alexandra
Locking, Alheydis Plassman, Stuart Pracy, Katherine Allen Smith,
Veerle van Eetvelde, Steven Vanderputten, Gerben Verbrugghe
First full-length collection on one of the most significant and
influential historians of the medieval period. The Gesta
Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are
widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European
historical writing and, as such, are essential sources of medieval
history forstudents and scholars alike. The essays here consider
Orderic's life and works, presenting new research on existing
topics within Orderic studies and opening up new directions for
future analysis and debate. They offer fresh interpretations from
across the disciplines of medieval manuscript studies,
English-language studies, archaeology, theology, and cultural
memory studies; they also revisit established readings. CHARLES C.
ROZIER gained hisPhD from the University of Durham; DANIEL ROACH
gained his PhD from the University of Exeter; GILES E.M. GASPER is
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham; ELIZABETH VAN
HOUTS is Honorary Professor of Medieval European History,
University of Cambridge. Contributors: William M. Aird, Emily Albu,
James G. Clark, Vincent Debiais, Mark Faulkner, Giles E. M. Gasper,
Veronique Gazeau, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisabeth Megier, Thomas
O'Donnell, Benjamin Pohl, Daniel Roach, Thomas Roche, Charles C.
Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Kathleen Thompson, Elisabeth van
Houts, Anne-Sophie Vigot,Jenny Weston
New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the
history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth
centuries. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates
the Society's continued engagement with historical and
interdisciplinary research on the early to the central Middle Ages,
focusing on the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Normanworlds - and beyond. It
includes an investigation of equestrian symbolism in Lombard
southern Italy; an inquiry into documentary production in Northern
France; and a new look at Anglo-Saxon servitude. Further chapters
offer an exploration of Norman ducal estates through GIS mapping; a
study of Winchester cathedral priory through the lens of the Codex
Wintoniensis; an examination of royal political strategy during the
interregnum crisis of King Stephen; and a prosopographical analysis
of Robert Curthose's crusade curiales. The first critical edition
and translation of the Carmen Ceccanense - an overlooked source for
German imperial history - will be widely welcomed. A new look at
the Domesday Book, with a comprehensive survey of previous
scholarship, completes the volume. Contributors: Stephen Baxter,
Paul Bertrand, Stephen D. Church, Alexander Dymond, Jennie M.
England,Thomas Foerster, S. Jay Lemanski, Simon Thomas Parsons,
Chiara Provesi.
First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval
cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was
understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West.
The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and
monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and
the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations
season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts
and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of
time, andpromoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties
also often included committing the past to writing, from simple
annals and chronicles to fuller histories, necrologies, and
cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and
individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. This
volume seeks to address the fundamental question of how the range
of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different
ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated
across the Middle Ages. Its essays are studies of constructions,
both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and
performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written
records; cantors, as this book makes clear, shaped the communal
experience of the past in the Middle Ages. KATIE ANN-MARIE BUGYIS
is Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the
University of Notre Dame; A.B. KRAEBEL is Assistant Professor of
English at Trinity University; MARGOT FASSLER is Kenough-Hesburgh
Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre
Dame and Robert Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History at Yale
University. Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Anna de Bakker, Alison I.
Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James
Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, Claire TaylorJones, A.B.
Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes,
Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber,
Lauren Whitnah
New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the
history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth
centuries. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal demonstrates
the Society's continued interest in a broad range of geographical
contexts and methodological approaches to medieval history.
Chapters include a much-needed reassessment of AElfthryth and her
place in the society and governance of tenth-century England, as
well as a comprehensive survey of the conceptualization of
excommunication in post-Carolingian Europe to c.1200. Further
essays explore aspects of the Norman world of southern Italy,
including the dynamics of political coalitions and kinship
networks, ethnic identity, and material culture. The Journal
continues to highlight close analyses of key primary sources,with a
study of Angevin kingship in the writings of Hugh of Lincoln and
Adam of Eynsham, and an examination of Ralph of Niger's Old
Testament exegesis and criticism of crusading in the late twelfth
century. A ground-breaking newstudy assesses the utility of
colonialism as a valid model for understanding the extraction of
sacred resources and relics from the crusader lands. The volume
closes with a crucial reconsideration of the agency and power of
medieval French peasants as attested in medieval cartularies,
opening new approaches for further research into this critical and
complex social group.
First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval
cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was
understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West.
The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and
monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and
the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations
season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts
and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of
time, andpromoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties
also often included committing the past to writing, from simple
annals and chronicles to more fulsome histories, necrologies, and
cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and
individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. This
volume seeks to address the fundamental question of how the range
of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different
waysin which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated
across the Middle Ages. Its essays are studies of constructions,
both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and
performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written
records; cantors, as this book makes clear, shaped the communal
experience of the past in the Middle Ages. Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at St. Martin's
University; Margot Fassler is Kenough-Hesburgh Professor of Music
History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and Robert
Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History at Yale University;
A.B. Kraebel is Assistant Professor of English at Trinity
University. Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Anna de Bakker, Alison I.
Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James
Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, Claire Taylor Jones,
A.B.Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes,
Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber,
Lauren Whitnah
An examination of the extraordinary texts produced by the community
of St Cuthbert, showing how they were used to construct and define
an identity. Historical texts of all kinds were written in the
community of St Cuthbert c.700-1130, from short annals to extended
narrative history, political tracts and works on the lives and
miracles of saints.At the same time, scribes in the community
worked to copy and procure notable classics of historiography, from
Classical Antiquity down to the Norman Conquest of England. But
what did these various forms of writing about past events mean to
their original authors and readers? What were these texts for? This
book offers a narrative of historiographical production within St
Cuthbert's community from the time of its foundation on the island
of Lindisfarne, through subsequent translations to
Chester-le-Street and Durham, down to the vibrant intellectual
revival of the Anglo-Norman period. Focusing on several watershed
moments in the story of this community, it identifies political,
religious, intellectual andcultural triggers for historical
writing, and argues that knowledge of past events gave successive
guardians of Cuthbert's cult their single most valuable tool in the
continuous effort to define who they were, where they had comefrom,
and what they hoped to continue to be.
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
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