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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.
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, History This
volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area.
It begins with an appropriately timely chapter on the Magna Carta,
the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, given by John Hudson. Further
topics include seals; English towns and urban society after the
Norman Conquest; the records of Barking Abbey; the Bayeux Tapestry;
monastic writing; and medical practitioners in Normandy.
Contributors: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Casey Beaumont, Elma Brenner,
Giles Gasper, Kate Hammond, John Hudson, Alan Murray, Jean-Francois
Nieus, Jonathan Paletta, Susan Raich, Luigi Rosso, Miri Rubin, Hugh
Thomas.
A richly valuable source of knowledge. MEDIUM AEVUM By the time of
the Conquest, the Normans had been established in Normandy for over
a hundred and fifty years. They had transformed themselves from
pagan Northmen into Christian princes; their territories extended
from England, southern Italy and Sicily to distant Antioch, and
their influence had spread throughout western Europe and the
Mediterranean. Duke William's victory at Hastings and the resulting
Anglo-Norman union brought England into the mainstreamof European
history and culture, with far-reaching consequences for Western
civilisation. These specially commissioned studies are concerned
with the achievements of the cross-Channel realm. They make a major
contribution toan understanding of the hundred years that witnessed
great change and major developments in English and Norman
government and society. There are surveys of the two constituent
parts, of Normandy under the Angevin kings, of the place of kingdom
and duchy in the politics and culture of the North Sea, and of the
parallel Norman achievement in the Mediterranean. There are
overviews both of secular administration and of the church, and a
study of "feudalism" and lordship. Within the broad field of
cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature,
the writing of history, and ecclesiastical architecture.
Contributors: LESLEY ABRAMS, MATTHEW BENNETT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL,
CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, EMMA MASON, RICHARD
PLANT, CASSANDRA POTTS, DANIEL POWER, IAN SHORT, ANN WILLIAMS
The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world. The
contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and
vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety
of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture
and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of
Duke Richard II and Abbot John of Fecamp in early Normandy;
political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin
courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of
Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's
motivation for his Historia Regum Britonum; twelfth-century legal
scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law
texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal acta from the
south-western Norman dioceses. Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre
Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara
Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen,
Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine Weikert
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
Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each
new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old
arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM This year's
volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this
area, across a variety of disciplines. Topics include the forging
of the Battle Abbey Chronicle; warring schoolmasters in
eleventh-century Rouen; theimpact of the Conquest on England; the
circulation of manuscripts between England and Normandy; and Earl
Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross. Contributors:
Julie Barrau, Christopher Clark, Laura Cleaver, Stefan de Jong,
Simon Keynes, Tom Licence, Brigitte Meijns, Thomas O'Donnell,
Alheydis Plassman, Elisabeth Ridel, Chris Whittick, Ann Williams
Responses to the impact of the Norman Conquest examined through the
wealth of evidence provided by the important abbey of Bury St
Edmunds. Bury St Edmunds is noteworthy in so many ways: in
preserving the cult and memory of the last East Anglian king, in
the richness of its archives, and not least in its role as a
mediator of medical texts and studies. All these aspects, and more,
are amply illustrated in this collection, by specialists in their
fields. The balance of the whole work, and the care taken to place
the individual topics in context, has resulted in a satisfying
whole, which placesAbbot Baldwin and his abbey squarely in the
forefront of eleventh-century politics and society. Professor Ann
Williams. The abbey of Bury St Edmunds, by 1100, was an
international centre of learning, outstanding for its culting of St
Edmund, England's patron saint, who was known through France and
Italy as a miracle worker principally, but also as a survivor, who
had resisted the Vikings and the invading king Swein and gained
strength after 1066. Here we journey into the concerns of his
community as it negotiated survival in the Anglo-Norman empire,
examining, on the one hand, the roles of leading monks, such as the
French physician-abbot Baldwin, and, on the other, the part played
by ordinary women of the vill. The abbey of Bury provides an
exceptionally rich archive, including annals, historical texts,
wills, charters, and medical recipes. The chapters in this volume,
written by leading experts, present differing perspectives on
Bury's responses to conquest; reflecting the interests of the
monks, they cover literature, music, medicine, palaeography, and
the history of the region in its European context. DrTom Licence is
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History and Director of the Centre of
East Anglian Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Contributors: Debbie Banham, David Bates, Eric Fernie, Sarah Foot,
Michael Gullick,Tom Licence, Henry Parkes, Veronique Thouroude,
Elizabeth van Houts, Thomas Waldman, Teresa Webber
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The
wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of
recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. Topics include English kingship,
legends of the Battle of Bouvines, ideas of empire, the
practicalities of child kingship, and female rulership in Brittany.
The volume continues in its proud tradition of source analysis:
there are studies of northern French urban franchises, and Norman
charters and a logistical take on the making of the Domesday Book,
while narrative sources are represented in the vernacular by a
study of Herman of Valenciennes' Bible and in Latin by the
historiography of Robert of Torigni and Ralph Niger. Further
contributions focus on the twelfth-century ecclesiastical officers
Abbot Peter the Venerable and Archbishop Thomas Becket, and the
volume is completed with an analysis of the concept of economic
resources with respect to Normandy. Contributors: Mathieu Arnoux,
JamesBarnaby, Dominique Barthelemy, Thomas Bisson, Scott G. Bruce,
Francis Gingras, Frederique Lachaud, Anne E. Lester, C.P. Lewis,
Amy Livingstone, Fanny Madeline, Nicholas Vincent, Emily Ward
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
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY The
contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range
and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a
variety of disciplines. They begin with Elisabeth van Houts' Allen
Brown Memorial Lecture, which makes a major contribution to
understanding the culture of early tenth-century Normandy. A number
of essays deal illuminatingly with monastic culture (both male and
female) and with associated literary production, from the making
ofthe famous Worcester cartularies to new insights into the
cultural world of forgery. Reading in the monastic refectory, the
high-quality of female monastic administration, the history of
charters for lay beneficiaries in the kingdom of Scots, attitudes
to women and power, and an exciting article on the nature of
maritime communities on both sides of the Channel also feature, and
there is a provocative and fascinating comparison of Henry II's and
FrederickBarbarossa's respective treatments of their families.
David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East Anglia.
Contributors: Ilya Afanasyev, Mathieu Arnoux, Robert F. Berkhofer
III, Laura Cleaver, Matthew Hammond, Elisabeth van Houts, Susan M.
Johns, Catherine Letouzey-Réty, Alheydis Plassmann, Sigbjørn
Olsen Sønnesyn, Andrew Wareham, Teresa Webber, Emily A. Winkler.
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.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History This
year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship
in this area, across a variety of disciplines. There is a
particular focus on the material culture of the Norman Conquest of
England and its aftermath, from study of horses and knights to its
archaeologies to castle construction and the representation of a
chanson de geste on an Italian church facade. The volume also
includes papers on royal and private authority in
Anglo-SaxonEngland; the relationship between Anglo-Norman rulers
and their neighbours; intellectual history; priests' wives; and
noble lepers. Contributors: Sabina Flanagan, Hazel Freestone, Sally
Harvey, Tom Lambert, Aleksandra McClain, Nicholas Paul, Charlotte
Pickard, David Pratt, Richard Purkiss, David Roffe, Nicolas
Ruffini-Ronzani, Lucia Sinisi, Linda Stone, Naomi Sykes
The sense of a group of scholars sharing work in progress comes
over on numerous occasions... a series which is a model of its
kind. EDMUND KING, HISTORY The emphasis in this collection of
recent work on the Anglo-Norman realm is particularly on narrative
sources: Dudo, Vita AEdwardi Regis, monastic chronicle audiences in
the Fens, the chronicles of Anjou, the Warenne view of the past -
and much later sources for stereotypical images of the Normans.
There are also papers analysing both charter and chronicle evidence
in reconsiderations of the succession disputes following the deaths
of William I and WilliamII. Papers range geographically from Anjou
to the Irish Sea zone. Contributors, from France and Germany as
well as from Britain, Ireland and the US, are BERNARD S. BACHRACH,
RICHARD BARBER, JULIA BARROW, CLARE DOWNHAM, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, JOHN
GRASSI, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, JENNIFER PAXTON, NEIL STREVETT, NEIL
WRIGHT.
A survey both of medieval biographical writings, and the problems
of recovering medieval lives. Biography is one of the oldest, most
popular and most tenacious of literary forms. Perhaps the best
attested narrative form of the Middle Ages, it continues to draw
modern historians of the medieval period to its peculiar challenge
to explicate the general through the particular: the biographer's
decisions to impose or to resist the imposition of order on
biographical remnants raise issues which go to the heart of
historical method. This collection, compiled in honour of a
distinguished modern exponent of the art of biography, contains
sixteen essays by leading scholars which examine the limits and
possibilities of the genre for the period between 750AD and 1250AD.
Ranging from pivotal figures such as Charlemagne, William the
Conqueror and St Bernard, to the anonymous female skeleton in an
Anglo-Saxon grave, from kings and queens to clerks and saints, and
from individual to the collective biographies,this collection
investigates both medieval biographical writings, and the issues
surrounding the writing of medieval lives. Professor DAVID BATES is
Director of the Institute of Historical Research; Dr JULIA CRICK
and DrSARAH HAMILTON teach in the Department of History at the
University of Exeter. Contributors: JANET L. NELSON, ROBIN FLEMING,
BARBARA YORKE, RICHARD ABELS, SIMON KEYNES, PAULINE STAFFORD,
ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, DAVID BATES,JANE MARTINDALE, CHRISTOPHER
HOLDSWORTH, LINDY GRANT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, EDMUND KING, JOHN
GILLINGHAM, DAVID CROUCH, NICHOLAS VINCENT
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 life and cult of Edward the Confessor are here fully
reappraised. The millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth
presents an appropriate occasion for a full-scale, up-to-date
reassessment of his life, reign and cult, a reappraisal which is
provided in the essays here. After an introduction to the many
views of Edward's life, and a reinterpretation of the development
of his cult, the volume considers his childhood in England and its
influence upon his later life; the time he spent in Normandy and
the relationships that developed there; and his later life,
including an examination of the role played by Edith, his queen.
There is also a particular focus upon Westminster Abbey, and the
major new discoveries which have recently been made there.
Incorporating both broad surveys and the fruits of detailed new
work, this book is essential reading for all those interested in
late Saxon and Norman England. CONTRIBUTORS: RICHARD MORTIMER,
SIMON KEYNES, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS,STEPHEN BAXTER, PAULINE STAFFORD,
ERIC FERNIE, WARWICK RODWELL, RICHARD GEM, EDINA BOZOKY
No single recent enterprise has done more to enlarge and deepen our
understanding of one of the most critical periods in English
history. ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL Anglo-Norman Studies, published
annually and containing the papers presented at the Battle
conference, is established as the single most important publication
in the field, covering not only matters relating to pre- and
post-Conquest England and France, but also the activities and
influences of the Normans on the wider European, Mediterranean, and
Middle Eastern stage; it celebrates its twenty-first anniversary
with this volume. This year there is an emphasis on the examination
of sources: translation-narratives, the Life of Hereward, the Book
of Llandaf, a Mont Saint Michel cartulary, Benoit de Sainte-Maure
and Roger of Howden. Secular topics include Anglo-Flemish relations
and the origins of an important family; ecclesiastical matters
considered are the Breton church in the late eleventh century,
William Rufus's monastic policy, the patrons of the great abbey of
Bec, and, for the first time in this series, the life of St Thomas
of Canterbury.
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum is one of the most important sources for the history of Normandy and England in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Elisabeth van Hout's two-volume edition is based on a study of all existing manuscripts of the Gesta, including the earliest surviving copy of c.1100, unknown until recently.
The Gesta Normannorum Ducum is one of the most important sources
for the history of Normandy and England in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and contains the earliest prose account of the Norman
Conquest. It was written by a succession of authors, the first of
whom was William of Jumieges, who wrote for William the Conqueror.
Later writers, such as Orderic Vitalis (d. c.1142) and Robert of
Torigni (d. 1186), interpolated and extended the chronicle as far
as King Henry I (1100-1135). The later accretions reveal much not
only about changing attitudes towards the Norman invasion of
England, but also about views of the early Viking foundation of
Normandy. Elisabeth van Houts's two-volume edition is based on a
study of all forty-seven extant manuscripts of the Gesta, including
the earliest surviving copy of c. 1100, hitherto unknown. The full
original text of William of Jumieges is supplied, as well as the
integral text of the subsequent revisions and additions. Volume I
contains Dr van Houts's introduction to the whole work, together
with the text and translation of books i-iv. Books v-viii will
appear in Volume II. The edition forms an important contribution to
our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics.
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