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In the last two decades, research on spatial paradigms and
practices has gained momentum across disciplines and vastly
different periods, including the field of medieval studies.
Responding to this 'spatial turn' in the humanities, the essays
collected here generate new ideas about how medieval space was
defined, constructed, and practiced in Europe, particularly in
France. Essays are grouped thematically and in three parts, from
specific sites, through the broader shaping of territory by means
of socially constructed networks, to the larger geographical realm.
The resulting collection builds on existing scholarship but brings
new insight, situating medieval constructions of space in relation
to contemporary conceptions of the subject.
In the last two decades, research on spatial paradigms and
practices has gained momentum across disciplines and vastly
different periods, including the field of medieval studies.
Responding to this 'spatial turn' in the humanities, the essays
collected here generate new ideas about how medieval space was
defined, constructed, and practiced in Europe, particularly in
France. Essays are grouped thematically and in three parts, from
specific sites, through the broader shaping of territory by means
of socially constructed networks, to the larger geographical realm.
The resulting collection builds on existing scholarship but brings
new insight, situating medieval constructions of space in relation
to contemporary conceptions of the subject.
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
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