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For decades, medieval scholarship has been dominated by the
paradigm that women who wielded power after c. 1100 were exceptions
to the "rule" of female exclusion from governance and the public
sphere. This collection makes a powerful case for a new paradigm.
Building on the premise that elite women in positions of authority
were expected, accepted, and routine, these essays traverse the
cities and kingdoms of France, England, Germany, Portugal, and the
Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in order to illuminate women's roles in
medieval power structures. Without losing sight of the predominance
of patriarchy and misogyny, contributors lay the groundwork for the
acceptance of female public authority as normal in medieval
society, fostering a new framework for understanding medieval elite
women and power.
The most recent cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth centuries. The essays collected here demonstrate the rich
vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular
focus on the interrelations between the various parts of
north-western Europe. After the opening piece on Lotharingia, there
are detailed studies of the relationship between Ponthieu and its
Norman neighbours, and between the Norman and Angevin duke-kings
and the other French nobility, followed by an investigation of the
world of demons and possession in Norman Italy, with additional
observations on the subject in twelfth-century England. Meanwhile,
the York massacre of the Jews in 1190 is set in a wider context,
showing the extent to which crusader enthusiasm led to the pogroms
that so marred Anglo-Jewish relations, not just in York but
elsewhere in England; and there is an exploration of poverty in
London, also during the 1190s, viewed through the prism of the life
and execution of William fitz Osbert. Another chapter demonstrates
the power of comparative history to illuminate the norms of
proprietary queenship, so often overlooked by historians of both
kingship and queenship. And two essays focusing on landscape bring
the physical into close association with the historical: on the
equine landscape of eleventh and twelfth-century England, adding
substantially to our understanding of the place of the horse in
late Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman societies, and on the Brut
narratives of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Lazamon, arguing that
they use realistic landscapes in their depiction of the action
embedded in their tales, so demonstrating the authors' grasp of the
practical realities of contemporary warfare and the role played by
landscapes in it.
Aspects of the reign of King Henry re-examined, from royal
biography to administrative history. It is a testament to C. Warren
Hollister's ongoing influence that the reign of Henry I, until his
work on the period relatively neglected, is now a vibrant field of
inquiry - to which this collection, a special volume of the Haskins
Society Journal dedicated to his memory, makes a significant
contribution. Its distinguished contributors, many former Hollister
students, cover a wide range of areas: royal biography; political
history, including Church-Staterelations and relations with
neighbors such as Maine and Ireland as well as the English people
Henry ruled; administrative history, including fiscal management;
and prosopography, especially of the major developments in the
Anglo-Norman aristocracy under Henry's reign. This volume thus
continues and extends Hollister's scholarly legacy. Contributors:
ROBERT S. BABCOCK, RICHARD E. BARTON, STEPHANIE MOOERS CHRISTELOW,
DAVID CROUCH, RAGENA C. DE ARAGON, LOIS L. HUNEYCUTT, DAVID S.
SPEAR, HEATHER J. TANNER, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, ANN WILLIAMS, SALLY N.
VAUGHN.
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