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This volume continues the Society's commitment to historical and
interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages,
demonstrating its belief that the close interrogation of primary
documents yield new insights or important revisions into our
understanding of the past. Volume 33 of the Haskins Society Journal
continues the Society's commitment to historical and
interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages
and demonstrates its belief that the close interrogation of primary
documents yield new insights or important revisions into our
understanding of the past. After an investigation of the role of
Anglo-Saxon bishops in the provision of coastal defense, the
subsequent articles explore different dimensions of the
Anglo-Norman period: the place of sex at the royal court, the
penitential sensibilities of Anglo-Norman prelates and their
geographical expression, the complexity of using Anglo-Norman land
surveys as evidence for the nature of and changes in peasant labor
and obligations, and the office of sheriff and its place in the
developing common law. The Denis Bethell Prize winning essay,
through its close analysis of Denis Piramus' French translation of
the Life of Edmund, king of England, explores the role of
translated texts in the formation of Anglo-Norman elite identity.
Essays on Queen Ingeborg of Denmark's conception and expression of
her role as a Capetian queen. and on the use and meaning of direct
and metaphorical references to art and artists in French sermons in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, round out the volume.
Contributors: Yaoling Dai, Gabrielle Faundez-Rojas, P.D.A Harvey,
Charles Insley, Tom Licence, Sara Lipton, Anne C. Schlender, Nigel
Tringham.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension.
The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is
here brought out, through an examination of the most important
aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical
(and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the
middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries,
theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps
to redress the balance by examining major themes in their
development between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. These
include the composition, life, corporate identity and memory of
cathedral communities; the relationships, sometimes supportive,
sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings (e.g. King John),
aristocracies, and neighbouring urban and religious communities;
the importance of cathedrals as centres of lordship and patronage;
their role in promoting and utilizing saints' cults (e.g. that of
St Thomas Becket); episcopal relations; and the involvement of
cathedrals in religious and political conflicts, and in the
settlement of disputes. A critical introduction locates medieval
cathedrals in space and time, and against a backdrop of wider
ecclesiastical change in the period. Contributors: Paul Dalton,
Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson, Ann Williams, C.P. Lewis,
RichardAllen, John Reuben Davies, Thomas Roche, Stephen Marritt,
Michael Staunton, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Paul Webster, Nicholas
Vincent
Cleley comprises a dozen parishes in the south on either side of
Watling Street, and includes the royal estate, the honor of
Grafton. This new volume, the first to be published for
Northamptonshire since 1937, deals with a group of a dozen parishes
in the south of the county, on either side of Watling Street
between Towcester and Stony Stratford. Essentially a group of
typical Midland open-field parishes, the main interest of the area
lies in the creation of a great royal estate, the honor of Grafton,
in 1542, which occupied about half the hundred. In 1706 the honor
passed to the secondDuke of Grafton under a grant made by his
grandfather, Charles II. The dukes remained the principal owners in
the district until a series of sales just after the First World
War.Researched with the thoroughness for which the Victoria County
History has long been well known, and illustrated with numerous
maps and plates, this volume will be of great interest to local
residents who wish to know about the past history of their
community, and also to a widerange of academic readers, especially
historians interested in landed estates between the sixteenth and
the twenty-first century.
The dynamics of medieval societies in England and beyond form the
focus of these essays on the Anglo-Norman world. Over the last
fifty years Ann Williams has transformed our understanding of
Anglo-Saxon and Norman society in her studies of personalities and
elites. In this collection, leading scholars in the field revisit
themes that have beencentral to her work, and open up new insights
into the workings of the multi-cultural communities of the realm of
England in the early Middle Ages. There are detailed discussions of
local and regional elites and the interplay between them that
fashioned the distinctive institutions of local government in the
pre-Conquest period; radical new readings of key events such as the
crisis of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry as the
beginnings of theHistoria Anglorum; studies of the impact of the
Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations
of the social, political, and administrative cultures in
post-Conquest England and Normandy. The individualessays are united
overall by the articulation of the local, regional, and national
identities that that shaped the societies of the period.
Contributors: S.D. Church, William Aird, Lucy Marten, Hirokazu
Tsurushima, Valentine Fallan, Judith Everard, Vanessa King, Pamela
Taylor, Charles Insley, Simon Keynes, Sally Harvey, K.S.B.
Keats-Rohan, David Bates, Emma Mason, David Roffe, Mark Hagger.
This latest volume in the history of Northamptonshire covers the
history of its industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
including, of course, its most celebrated products: boots and
shoes. Particular attention is given to the impact of industrial
development upon the infrastructure, topography and environment of
the county.
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal
government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
The years between 1258 and 1276 comprise one of the most
influential periods in the Middle Ages in Britain. This turbulent
decade witnessed a bitter power struggle between Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays here draw on material available for the first time via
the completion of the project to calendar all the Fine Rolls of
Henry III; these rolls comprise the last series of records of the
English Chancery from that period to become readily available in a
convenient form, thereby transforming accessto several important
fields of research, including financial, legal, political and
social issues. The volume covers topics including the evidential
value of the fine rolls themselves and their wider significance for
the English polity, developments in legal and financial
administration, the roles of women and the church, and the
fascinating details of the development of the office of escheator.
Related or parallel developments in Scotland, Wales and Ireland are
also dealt with, giving a broader British dimension. LOUISE J.
WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln;
DAVID CROOK is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of
Notthingham. Contributors: Nick Barratt, Paul Brand, David
Carpenter, David Crook, Paul Dryburgh, Beth Hartland, Philippa
Hoskin, Charles Insley, Adrian Jobson, Tony Moore, Alice Taylor,
Nicholas Vincent, Scott Waugh, Louise Wilkinson
The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set
together for the first time. Eleventh-century England suffered two
devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and
the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, the
Norman Conquest of 1066, has been credited with the impact and
influence of a permanent transformation. Half a century earlier,
the Danish conquest of 1016 had nonetheless marked the painful
culmination of decades of raiding and invasion - and more
importantly, of centuries of England's conflict and cooperation
with the Scandinavian world - and the Normans themselves were a
part of that world. Without 1016, the conquest of 1066 could never
have happened as it did: and yet disciplinary fragmentation in the
study of eleventh-century England has ensured that a gulf separates
the conquests in modern scholarship. The essays in this volume
offer multidisciplinary perspectives on a century of conquest: in
politics, law, governance, and religion; in art, literature,
economics, and culture; and in the lives and experiences of peoples
in a changing, febrile, and hybrid society. Crucially, it moves
beyond an insular perspective, placing England within its British,
Scandinavian, and European contexts; and in reaching across
conquests connects the tenth century and earlier with the twelfth
century and beyond, seeing the continuities in England's
Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Angevin elite cultureand
rulership. The chapters break new ground in the documentary
evidence and give fresh insights into the whole historical
landscape, whilst fully engaging with the importance, influence,
and effects of England's eleventh-centuryconquests, both separately
and together. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English Literature and
Fellow and Tutor in English, Worcester College, Oxford; EMILY JOAN
WARD is Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow, Darwin College,
Cambridge. Contributors: Timothy Bolton, Stephanie Mooers
Christelow, Julia Crick, Sarah Foot, John Gillingham, Charles
Insley, Catherine Karkov, Lois Lane, Benjamin Savill, Peter
Sigurdson Lunga, Niels Lund, Rory Naismith, Bruce O'Brien, Rebecca
Thomas, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Elisabeth van Houts, Emily Joan Ward.
The five authoritive papers presented here are the product of long
careers of research into Anglo-Saxon culture. In detail the subject
areas and approaches are very different, yet all are
cross-disciplinary and the same texts and artefacts weave through
several of them. Literary text is used to interpret both history
and art; ecclesiastical-historical circumstances explain the
adaptation of usage of a literary text; wealth and religious
learning, combined with old and foreign artistic motifs are blended
into the making of new books with multiple functions;
religio-socio-economic circumstances are the background to changes
in burial ritual. The common element is transformation, the
Anglo-Saxon ability to rework older material for new times and the
necessary adaptation to new circumstances. The papers originated as
five recent Toller Memorial Lectures hosted by the Manchester
Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (MANCASS).
One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new
light on old arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM The
articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of
this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure
of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader diplomacy.
Other chapters consider the ceremony of knighting and the
coronation ritual of Matilda of Flanders. There are also
investigations of hunting landscapes in Cheshire, and Lancashire
before Lancashire in the context of the Irish Sea World, while
lordship is examined in two contexts, in post-Conquest England and
early thirteenth-century Le Mans and Chartres. The sources for our
knowledge of the period, as always, receive attention, whether
drawn from documentary evidence or material culture, with essays on
universal chronicle-writing and the construction of the Galfridian
past in the Continuatio Ursicampina; the coinage of Harold II; and
the patronage of the Bayeux Tapestry by Odo of Bayeux.
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.
Studies on the cultural, social, political and economic history of
the age. This collection presents new and original research on the
long thirteenth century, from c.1180-c.1330, including England's
relations with Wales and Ireland. The range of topics embraces
royal authority and its assertion and limitation, the great royal
inquests and judicial reform of the reign of Edward I, royal
manipulation of noble families, weakening royal administration at
the end of the century, sex and love in the upper levels of
society, monastic/layrelations, and the administration of building
projects. Contributors: RUTH BLAKELY, NICOLA COLDSTREAM, BETH
HARTLAND, CHARLES INSLEY, ANDY KING, SAMANTHA LETTERS, JOHN
MADDICOTT, MARC MORRIS, ANTHONY MUSSON, DAVIDA. POSTLES, MICHAEL
PRESTWICH, SANDRA G. RABAN, BJORN WEILER, JOCELYN WOGAN-BROWNE,
ROBERT WRIGHT. THE EDITORS are all in the Department of History,
University of Durham.
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