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The studies in this book examine and illuminate the Anglo-Saxon and
Anglo-Norman military institutions that supported and shaped the
conduct of war in northwestern Europe in the central middle ages.
Taken together they challenge received opinion on a number of
issues and force a profound reconsideration of the manner in which
the Normans and their adversaries, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Angevins
and the Welsh, prepared for and waged war.Contributors: RICHARD
ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, KELLY DEVRIES, JOHN FRANCE, C.M. GILLMOR,
ROBERT HELMERICHS, NIELS LUND, STEPHEN MORILLO, MICHAEL PRESTWICH,
FREDERICK SUPPE.Contents RICHARD ABELS, From Alfred to Harold II:
The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State; BERNARD S.
BACHRACH, William Rufus's Plan for the Invasion of Aquitaine; KELLY
DEVRIES, Harold Godwinson in Wales: Military Legitimacy in Late
Anglo-Saxon England; JOHN FRANCE, The Normans and Crusading; C.M.
GILLMORE, Aimoin's Miracula Sancti Germani and the Viking Raids on
St Denis and St Germain-des-PrA(c)s; ROB HELMERICHS, 'Ad tutandos
patriae fines': The Defense of Normandy, 1135; NILS LUND, Expedicio
in Denmark; STEPHEN MORILLO, Milites, Knights and Samurai: Military
Terminology, Comparative History, and the Problem of Translation;
MICHAEL PRESTWICH, The Garrisoning of English Medieval Castles;
FREDERICK SUPPE, The Persistance of Castle-Guard in the Welsh
Marches and Wales: Suggestions for a Research Agenda and
Methodology.
The essays in this volume derive in the main, though not
exclusively, from the 13th annual conference held in Houston in
November 1994. Written by an international group of scholars, they
centre on the history of England and its neighbours during the
Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Anglo-Norman and Angevin periods. Of
particular interest is a wide-ranging and well-illustrated article
on medieval bridges; other topics include the Anglo-Norman patrons
of Bury St Edmunds, Anglo-Welsh relations before 1066, the legal
status of the Britons in seventh-century Wessex, and the Hundred
Rolls. There is also a particular focus on the roles played by
women, with articles on Henry I's queen Adeliza of Louvain, and the
Anglo-Norman countesses of Chester.Dr C.P. LEWIS teaches in the
Department of History at the University of Liverpool; Dr EMMA
COWNIE teaches in the Department of History, King's College,
London. Contents and Contributors: EMMA COWNIE, NICHOLAS BROOKS,
LOUIS M. ALEXANDER, JOHNR.E. BLIESE, FREDERICK C. SUPPE, W. SCOTT
JESSEE, H.B. TEUNIS, JULIE POTTER, LAURA WERTHEIMER, SUSAN JOHNS,
R.H. HELMHOLZ, S.F.C. MILSOM, DAVID ROFFE.
A comparison of the opposed military systems along the
English/Welsh border - Anglo-Norman and Celtic - in the 12th
century. Between 1066 and 1282 two quite different societies were
juxtaposedalong the Welsh Marches: a feudally-based Anglo-Norman
one, and aCeltic Welsh one. It has been conventional to consider
the formerto have been more sophisticated and developed than the
latter but, in fact, the situation was more complex, and during
more than two centuries of attacks and campaigns each society
borrowed from the other. This book is the first comparative study
of the twomilitary systems. It considers issues pertinent to the
entire border region, and, indeed, to other medieval marches.
Specific topics examined include: the nature of Welsh military
service, Welsh tactics and the English response, the development
and functioning of Clun (a representative border castlery), the
local command in Shropshire and the so-called "wardens" of the
March, and the extent to which Welsh military customs influenced
those of the Marches and of England. FREDERICK SUPPE is Professor
of History at Ball State University.
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.
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