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Discussion of site and buildings, books and manuscripts, cultural
life and traditions, from the earliest Anglo-Saxon period to the
later middle ages. Glastonbury Abbey was one of the great cultural
centres of Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, yet this is the first
volume of scholarly essays to be devoted to the subject. Written in
honour of C. A. Ralegh Radford, the first itemsare concerned with
the physical remains of the abbey, ranging from the place of
Glastonbury in the development of Christianity in Somerset to
specific examinations of surviving monastic buildings. The main
body of the essays explores documents relating to the abbey for
evidence of its history and traditions, including the earliest
Anglo-Saxon period, pre-conquest abbots, and links with the Celtic
world. The final section deals with the cultural life of the abbey:
Glastonbury's role in education is discussed and the concluding
essay deals with the most magical of all Glastonbury legends - its
link with Joseph of Arimathea and the Grail. Contributors: PHILIP
RAHTZ, MICHAEL D. COSTEN, C.J. BOND, J.B. WELLER, ROBERT W.
DUNNING, LESLEY ABRAMS, JAMES P. CARLEY, ANN DOOLEY, SARAH FOOT,
DAVID THORNTON, RICHARD SHARPE, JULIA CRICK, OLIVER J.PADEL,
MATTHEW BLOWS, CHARLES T. WOOD, NICHOLAS ORME,
CERIDWENLLOYD-MORGAN, FELICITY RIDDY.
First-ever full index to people and place-names in Domesday in
their original forms. Presented here is the first complete, all
Latin index to the Domesday Book, comprising two Indices Personarum
and one Index Locorum. The main Index Personarumcontains all
references to people: named individuals, title-holders, and
`institutions' (collections of persons functioning as individual
landholders in the Domesday text); individuals are listed
alphabetically under the initial letter of their forename, while
`institutions' are entered under the place where they are located.
The second, shorter Index Personarum lists all people
alphabetically under their surname. In both indexes the exact Latin
forms given in Domesday Book and all variant spellingshave been
retained. The Index Locorumlists all place-names in Domesday,
except where linked to an `institution': the names of
administrative units have been incorporated alphabetically into
this index with the appropriate term added after the name.
Cross-references to other counties have also been included. Again,
the Latin form in the Domesday text is given exactly. References
are to the 1783 Farley and more recent Phillimore editions. Dr
K.S.B. KEATS-ROHANis Director of the Linacre Unit for
Prosopographical Research; DAVID THORNTONis Assistant Professor in
the Department of History, Bilkent University, Ankara.
Articles on the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in
determining political events in the middle ages. In recent decades
historians have become increasingly aware of the value of
prosopography as an auxiliary science standing at the crossroads
between anthropology, genealogy, demography and social history. It
is now developing as an independent research discipline of real
benefit to medievalists. The geographically and chronologically
wide-ranging subjects of the essays in this collection, by scholars
from the British Isles and the Continent, are united bya common
theme, namely the significance of genealogy and kinship ties in
determining political events in the middle ages. The papers,
including a review of the history of prosopography and some of its
major successes as a method by Karl Ferdinand Werner, range from
general considerations of prosopographical and genealogical
methodology (including discussion of Anglo-Norman royal charters)
to specific analyses of individual political and kinship groups
(including the genealogy of the counts of Anjou and a
rehabilitation of the prosopographical material in Wace's Roman de
Rou). The main geographic focus is England and France from the
tenth to the twelfth centuries, but other areas as diverse as
Celtic Ireland and the Latin Principality of Antioch also come
under prosopographical scrutiny. Contributors: DAVID E. THORNTON,
ANNE WILLIAMS, C.P. LEWIS, DAVID BATES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, EMMA
COWNIE, JUDITH GREEN, JOHN S. MOORE, K.S.B. KEATS-ROHAN, CHRISTIAN
SETTIPANI, HUBERT GUILLOTEL, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, VERONIQUE GAZEAU,
MICHEL BUR, ALAN V. MURRAY, DANIEL POWER.
The question of the British presence in Anglo-Saxon England
readdressed by archaeologists, historians, linguists, and
place-name specialists. The number of native Britons, and their
role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for
generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth
century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German "past".
Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the
issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred
minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany,
while other disciplinary groups have been less united in their
views, with many archaeologists and historians viewing the British
presence, potentially at least, as numerically significant or even
dominant. The papers collected here seek to shed new light on this
complex issue, by bringing together contributions from different
disciplinary specialists and exploring the interfaces between
various categories of knowledge about the past. They assemble both
a substantial body of evidence concerning the presence of Britons
and offer a variety of approaches to the central issues of the
scale of that presence and its significance across the seven
centuries of Anglo-Saxon England. NICK HIGHAM is Professor of Early
Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: RICHARD COATES, MARTIN GRIMMER, HEINRICH HARKE, NICK
HIGHAM, CATHERINE HILLS, LLOYD LAING, C.P. LEWIS, GALE R.
OWEN-CROCKER, O.J. PADEL, DUNCANPROBERT, PETER SCHRIJVER, DAVID
THORNTON, HILDEGARD L.C. TRISTRAM, DAMIAN TYLER, HOWARD WILLIAMS,
ALEX WOOLF
The life, career and medieval biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king
of Gwynedd 1095-1137. The reign of the North Welsh king Gruffudd ap
Cynan [1075-1135] marked the culmination of a century of rapid
social and political change. A product of three cultures [Welsh,
Irish and Scandinavian], Gruffudd faced a Wales dividedby Norman
incursion and dynastic rivalry; his re-creation of his kingdom saw
him acting on the wider (and often deadly) stage of Anglo-Norman
politics, and surviving where more `traditional' Welsh rulers
failed. His reign encouraged a new growth in Welsh literature and
creativity, and is often looked upon as a literary `golden age'.
This collaborative biography analyses key aspects of the career and
context of this remarkable king. Dr K.L. MAUNDteaches in the School
of History and Archaeology, University of Wales, Cardiff. Other
contributors: DAVID MOORE, C.P. LEWIS, DAVID E. THORNTON, K.L.
MAUND, JUDITH JESCH, NERYS ANN JONES, CERI DAVIES, J.E. CAERWYN
WILLIAMS
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