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A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King The wide-ranging
articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent
Anglo-Norman scholarship. There is a particular focus on historical
sources for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and especially on
the key texts which are used by historians in understanding the
past. There are articles on Eadmer's Historia Novorum, Dudo of
Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum, the historical profession at
Durham, and the use of charters to understand the role of women in
the Norman march of Wales. Other contributions examine canon law in
late twelfth-century England, and Angevin rule in Normandy in the
time of Henry fitz Empress. The Old English world is also
represented in the volume: there is a fresh investigation into
Harold Godwineson's posthumous reputation, and a new interpretation
of the reign of Aethelred the Unready. S.D. CHURCH is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Contributors:
Emma Cavell, Catherine Cubitt, John Gillingham, Mark Hagger, Fraser
McNair, Charles C. Rozier, Nicholas Ruffini-Ronzani, Danica
Summerlin, Ann Williams
Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism
and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly
obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians. Six of the
greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry
of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of
Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of
essays, focusing on their attitudes to three inter-related aspects
of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and
condescending perception which regarded the Irish, Scots and Welsh
as barbarians; set against the background of socio-economic and
cultural change in England, it is argued that this imperialist
perception created a fundamental divide in the history of the
British Isles, one to which Geoffrey of Monmouth responded
immediately and brilliantly. The secondtheme treats chivalry not as
a mere gloss upon the brutal realities of life, but as an important
development in political morality; and it reconsiders some of the
old questions associated with chivalric values and knightly
obligations - home-grown products or imports from France? The third
theme is the emergence of a new sense of Englishness after the
traumas of the Norman Conquest, looking at the English invasion of
Ireland and the making of English history. JOHN GILLINGHAM is
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, London School of
Economics.
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The most recent ideas and arguments from leading historians of
John's reign. The reign of King John (1199-1216) is one of the most
controversial in English history. When he succeeded to Richard the
Lionheart's lands, he could legitimately claim to rule half modern
France as well as England and Ireland; butby the time of his death
his dominion lay in tatters, and his subjects had banded together
to restrict his powers as king under the Magna Carta and to
overthrow him in favour of the son of the king of France. Over the
centuries his reign has provided politicians and historians with
fertile ground for inspiration and argument, and this volume adds
to the debate, offering the most recent ideas and arguments from
leading historians on the subject, and covering all the major
issues involved. It is coherently formulated around explorations of
the two major events of his reign: the loss of his continental
inheritance, and the ending of his reign in the disaster of civil
war. Topicscover all aspects of his life and career, from his
reputation, the economy, the Norman aristocracy, the Church,
Justice and the Empire, to his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine and his
wife Isabella of Angouleme. It will be essential reading for all
interested in one of the most significant periods of English
history. Contributors: NICK BARRATT, J.L. BOLTON, JIM BRADBURY,SEAN
DUFFY, A.A.M. DUNCAN, NATALIE FRYDE, JOHN GILLINGHAM, CHRISTOPHER
HARPER-BILL, PAUL LATIMER, JANE MARTINDALE, V.D. MOSS, DANIEL
POWER, IFOR W. ROWLANDS, RALPH V. TURNER, NICHOLAS VINCENT.
Professor S.D. CHURCH teaches in the Department of History at the
University of East Anglia.
Essays on strategic thinking and practice in medieval warfare. This
special edition of the Journal aims to respond to the lively debate
in recent years as to whether medieval military history was
characterized by particular types of strategy, be it Grand,
Vegetian or Battle-Seeking. Itbrings together many of the
pre-eminent military historians active today to examine a number of
cases that display the complexity and diversity of strategic
realities, as well as exploring new models and methodological
avenues inevaluating medieval strategies. Material ranges
chronologically from the late Roman Empire to the late Middle Ages,
and geographically from the Baltic and the British Isles to Iberia
and the Crusader States, while the topics explored include the
Viking Wars, the English long bow, and the economies of conquest.
LEIF INGE REE PETERSEN is Associate Professor of Late Antique and
Early Medieval History at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim; MANUEL ROJAS GABRIEL is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of Extremadura, Caceres.
Contributors: Richard Abels, Bernard S. Bachrach, Matthew Bennett,
John France, Luis Garcia-Guijarro Ramos, John Gillingham, Dolores
Oliva Garcia, Leif Inge Ree Petersen, Manuel Rojas Gabriel.
New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects
of the reign of King John. Magna Carta marked a watershed in the
relations between monarch and subject and has long been the subject
of constitutional and political historical writing. This volume has
a different focus: what was the social, economic, legal, and
religious background to the Charter - what was England like between
1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John perceived
by those who actually knew him? Studies here analyse earlier
Angevin rulers and theeffect of their reigns on John's England, the
causes and results of the increasing baronial fear of the king, the
"managerial revolution" of the English church, and the effect of
the ius commune on English common law; theyalso explore the
burgeoning economy of the early thirteenth century and its effect
on English towns, the background to discontent over the royal
forests which eventually led to the Charter of the Forest, the
effect of Magna Cartaon widows and property, and the course of
criminal justice before 1215. The volume ends with the first
critical edition of an open letter from King John explaining his
position in the matter of William de Briouze. Contributors: James
A. Brundage, David Crook, David Crouch, John Gillingham, Barbara A.
Hanawalt, John Hudson, Janet S. Loengard, James Masschaele, R. V.
Turner.
This volume contains the usual wide range of topics, and offers
some unusual and provocative perspectives, including an examination
of what the evidence of zooarchaeology can reveal about the
Conquest. The other subjects discussed are the battle of AlenAon;
the impact of rebellion on Little Domesday; Lawrence of Durham;
Thomas Becket; Peter of Blois; Anglo-French peace conferences;
episcopal elections and the loss of Normandy; Norman identity in
southern Italian chronicles; and the Normans on crusade. The
contributors, from Germany, France and Denmark as well as Britain,
and the United States, are RICHARD BARTON, NAOMI SYKES, LUCY
MARTEN, MIA MA1/4NSTER-SWENDSEN, JOHN D. COTTS, J.E.M. BENHAM, JARG
PELTZER, JULIE BARRAU, EMILY ALBU, EWAN JOHNSON, G. A. LOUD, HANNA
VOLLRATH.
The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in
Glasgow, and this volume has a particular focus on Scottish themes.
The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in
Glasgow, and this volume, while ranging from Norman Sicily to
Scandinavia, has a particular focus on Scottish themes. There are
six papers on aspects of Scottish history from the eleventh to the
early thirteenth century: on kings and their followers, on the
building of burghs, and on the border abbey churches. Charters
(Norman, Anglo-Norman and Scottish) represent another focus. In
additionto papers discussing problems of authenticity and the
implications of forgery, several others use charter evidence to
shed new light on royal and aristocratic values and on critical
periods in the history of William the Conquerorand the Marshal
earls. Three papers take a comparative look at past and present
interpretations of law and law codes in England, Scotland and
Scandinavia; two investigate contemporary historians' perceptions
of the Jews and Byzantium.Contributors: MICHAEL ANGOLD, G.W.S.
BARROW, DAVID BATES, DAUVIT BROUN, JULIA CRICK, A.A.M. DUNCAN,
RICHARD FAWCETT, J0HN HUDSON, MICHAEL H. GELTING, MICHAEL KENNEDY,
RICHARD MORTIMER, BRUCE O'BRIEN, DANIEL POWER, NIGEL WEBB.
In chronological and geographical scope this volume ranges
fromtenth-century Marchiennes, to three castles c.1300 in Co.
Carlow, via Toulouse in 1159; none the less, England in the
eleventh and twelfth centuries remains central. Three papers deal
with the late Anglo-Saxon earls and their followers as consumers
and politicians; three with religious institutions in both
charitable and political perspective. Familiar subjects such as
English castle keeps, the Bayeux Tapestry and the New Forest are
shown in unfamiliar light. Other papers consider contemporary views
of Henry I and Stephen and modern views of Anglo-Saxon slavery.
A unique collection of materials focused on one of the most
significant battles in European history. The Battle of Hastings is
a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most
significant battles in European history. It includes all the
primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal
accounts ofthe battle by the major historians of the last two
centuries. Stephen Morillo, in his own important piece, first sets
the scene, describing the political situation in western Europe in
the mid-eleventh century, and the events of1066. He then introduces
the sources, reviewing the perspective of their medieval authors,
and traces the history of writing about the battle. An important
companion to the sources and interpretations is the set of original
maps of the major stages of the battle, from first contact in the
early morning of 14 October 1066 to final pursuit in the late
evening darkness. Sources: WILLIAM OF POITIERS, WILLIAM OF
JUMIEGES, ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, FLORENCE OF WORCESTER, BAYEUX
TAPESTRY, CARMEN DE HASTINGAE PROELIO Interpretations: RICHARD
ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, R. ALLEN BROWN, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, E.A.
FREEMAN, J.F.C. FULLER, JOHN GILLINGHAM, CAROL GILLMOR, RICHARD
GLOVER, CHRISTINE and GERALD GRAINGE, DAVID HUME, STEPHEN MORILLO.
STEPHEN MORILLO teaches history at Wabash College, Indiana; he is
the author of Warfare under the Anglo-Norman Kings and a number of
other studies ofAnglo-Norman warfare.
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 revisionist approach to Eleanor of Aquitaine and the political,
social, cultural and religious world in which she lived. Eleanor of
Aquitaine (1124-1204) is one of the most important and well-known
figures of the Middle Ages; she exercised a huge influence on both
the course of history, and on the cultural life, of the time. The
essays in this collection use her as a point of entry into
wider-ranging discussions of the literary, social, political and
religious milieux into which she was born, and to which she
contributed; they address many of the misconceptions that have
grown around both Eleanor herself and the medieval Midi in general,
and open up new areas of debate. Topics explored include the work
of the troubadours and the importance to them of patronage;
perceptions of southern France and itsinhabitants by outsiders; the
early history of the Templars in southern France; cultural contacts
between the Midi and other parts of the Latin world; the uses of
ritual and historical myth in the expression of political power;
and attitudes towards women. Contributors: Catherine Leglu, Marcus
Bull, Richard W. Barber, Daniel F. Callahan, Malcolm Barber, John
B. Gillingham, Linda Paterson, Ruth Harvey, Daniel Power, Laurent
Mace, William Paden.
Essays on aspects of medieval military history, encompassing the
most recent critical approaches. The essays in this volume honour
the career and achievements of Richard Abels, the distinguished
historian of medieval military history; in particular, they aim to
reflect how the "cultural turn" in the field has led to exciting
new developments in scholarship. Ranging from the late eighth
century to the fifteenth, from northern England to the Levant, the
chapters analyze how medieval kings and commanders practiced a
genuine military science, how themeanings of victory and defeat
were constructed by chroniclers and whole societies, how wars were
remembered and propagandized, and how religion and war mixed.
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.
The Anglo-Norman world, with particular focus on the Normans in
Ireland. Founded by Professor R. Allen Brown, the Battle Conference
this year celebrates its 20th meeting in Dublin with a particular
focus on Irish topics. Anglo-Norman Studies, published annually and
containing the papers presented at the conference, is established
as the single most important publication in the field (as a glance
at bibliographies of the period will confirm), 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.
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY A
particular area of interest in this volume is the landscape and
economy of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, with papers
on castles, deer parks, marshlands, fisheries, and taxation. Two
complementary papers discuss neglected aspects of the Bayeux
Tapestry: gesture, and the representation of identity and status.
Other papers survey the deaths of kings, the role of the Norman
vicomte, the estates of the king's wife in Anglo-Saxon England, and
lay piety. John Gillingham's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture considers
right conduct in battle. C.P. Lewis is Reader in History at the
Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Contributors: JOHNGILLINGHAM, STEPHEN CHURCH, MARK GARDINER, ALBAN
GAUTIER, MARK HAGGER, RYAN LAVELLE, MICHAEL LEWIS, ANDREW LOWERRE,
GALE OWEN-CROCKER, HUGH THOMAS, HIROKAZU TSURUSHIMA, ANDREW
WAREHAM, XIANG DONG WEI.
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Survey of the reign of Henry II, offering a range of new
evaluations and interpretations. Henry II is the most imposing
figure among the medieval kings of England. His fiefs and domains
extended from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, and his court was
frequented by the greatest thinkers and men of letters of his
time,besides ambassadors from all over Europe. Yet his is a reign
of paradoxes: best known for his dramatic conflicts with his own
wife and sons and with Thomas Becket, it was also a crucial period
in the evolution of legal and governmental institutions. Here
experts in the field provide significant reevaluations of its most
important aspects. Topics include Henry's accession and his
relations with the papacy, the French king, other rulers in the
British Islesand the Norman baronage; the development of the common
law and the coinage; the court and its literary milieu; the use of
Arthurian legend for political purposes; and the career of the
Young King Henry, while the introduction examines the
historiography of the reign. CONTRIBUTORS: MARTIN ALLEN, MARTIN
AURELL, NICK BARRATT, PAUL BRAND, SEAN DUFFY, ANNE DUGGAN, JEAN
DUBABIN, JOHN GILLINGHAM, EDMUND KING, DANIEL POWER, IAN SHORT,
MATTHEW STRICKLAND CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL and NICHOLAS VINCENT are
Professors of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.
Ten papers, on campaigns, biographies, military hardware,
fortifications and interpreting medieval records. The second issue
of this new undertaking broadens its geographical and practical
range, widening its focus to draw in the amateur specialist in
addition to military historians: the study of the origins of the
crossbow industry inEngland is a case in point. Other papers
include studies of campaigns (Henry II in Wales and Henry of
Lancaster in France), articles on weaponry and Spanish
fortifications in the Mediterranean, a brief life of the mercenary
Armengol VI of Urgel, and case studies of the interpretation of
chronicles in reconstructing battles and military action. Taken
together, the articles reinforce the centrality of fighting and
warfare in the middle ages, adding valuabledetail to an
understanding of medieval society. Contributors: DAVID S. BACHRACH,
ROBERT J. BURNS, KELLY DEVRIES, JOHN B. GILLINGHAM, JOHN HOSLER,
DONALD KAGAY, BERNARD F. REILLY, CLIFFORD J. ROGERS, THERESA M.
VANN, J.F.VERBRUGGEN.
`An indispensable series for anyone who wishes to keep abreast of
recent work in the field'. WELSH HISTORY REVIEW Volume VI of
Thirteenth Century England sees a new impetus behind this biennial
series. The conference which generates the studies - a generous
thirteen in this volume - has now moved to Durham, where Professor
MICHAEL PRESTWICH is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor ROBIN FRAME
and Dr RICHARD BRITNELL are members of the History Department. It
is the publishers' hope that, like Anglo-Norman Studies, the series
will now be recognised as one which any library with a serious
interest in medieval history will need to possess. This latest
volume in the series takes a broad chronological approach, covering
a wide range of topics over a period extending from the late
twelfth to the early fourteenth century, the so-called `long
thirteenth century'. Embracing different aspects of the economic,
social and political history of the period, subjects include naval
warfare under Richard I; England's relations with Wales and
Scotland; the purchasing practices of great households, and the
management of the Winchester estates; the expulsion of Jews in
1290; and the construction and political message of the Vita
Edwardi Secundi. Two articles concern women, one looking at the
role of queens in granting pardons, the other at the fate of widows
in the aftermath of rebellion. Contributors: JOHN GILLINGHAM,
BARBARA HARVEY, MARK PAGE, PETER COSS,JENS ROEHRKASTEN, ROBERT C.
STACEY, SUSAN CRANE, J.J. CRUMP, FIONA WATSON, JOHN PARSONS, PAULA
DOBROWOLSKI, CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON, WENDY CHILDS
Papers exploring the impact of change on aspects of the
twelfth-century Anglo-Norman world. The twelfth-century
renaissance, though usually seen as a French phenomenon, produced
fundamental changes in the culture and politics of the wider
Anglo-Norman world. The essays in this volume, by leadingscholars
in this field meeting at La Bretesche, Brittany, in 1995, explore
the impact of this change. Covering a variety of topics, including
the transmission of Norman saints' cults, vernacular history and
aristocratic values, and shifting modes of deathand dying, they
have in common the elements of change and transformation occurring
throughout society during the course of the Anglo-Norman era. The
late Professor C. WARREN HOLLISTER taught at the University of
California at Santa Barbara. Contributors: C. WARREN HOLLISTER,
CASSANDRA POTTS, JOHN GILLINGHAM, JUDITH GREEN, ROBIN FLEMING,
DAVID CROUCH
Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism
and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly
obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians. Six of the
greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry
of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of
Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of
essays, focusing on their attitudesto three inter-related aspects
of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and
condescending perception which regarded the Irish, Scots and Welsh
as barbarians; set against the background of socio-economic and
cultural change in England, it is argued that this imperialist
perception created a fundamental divide in the history of the
British Isles, one to which Geoffrey of Monmouth responded
immediately and brilliantly. The secondtheme treats chivalry not as
a mere gloss upon the brutal realities of life, but as an important
development in political morality; and it reconsiders some of the
old questions associated with chivalric values and knightly
obligations -home-grown products or imports from France? The third
themeis the emergence of a new sense of Englishness after the
traumas of the Norman Conquest, looking at the English invasion of
Ireland and the making of English history. John Gillingham is
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, London School of
Economics.
A valuable group of papers by pupils and associates of John
Prestwich, which reflects his own rigorous questioning of the
sources to elicit a clear picture of the realities of the wars that
so concerned the medieval state.' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
War, rebellion and castle-building in Normandy and Poitou, charters
and writs, dedications of churches in England, Jews, attitudes to
kindred - the regular stimulating mix. Seven papers in this volume
deal with England, six (four of them in French) with northern and
western France. One major focus is on the endowment and building of
churches in England from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the early
thirteenth century; a second important group looks at war,
rebellion and castle-building in Normandy and Poitou. Three papers
investigate the value of charters and writs for an understanding of
political structures in Anglo-Saxon and twelfth-century England;
and there are studies of the revealing ways in which attitudes to
outsiders and insiders (Jews, and kindred) were articulated in
eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe. Contributors: MARTIN AURELL,
MARIE-PIERRE BAUDRY, PIERRE BAUDUIN, JULIA BOORMAN, NATALIE FRYDE,
CHARLES INSLEY, STEPHEN MARRITT, VINCENT MOSS, DOMINIQUE PITTE, TIM
TATTON-BROWN, PAMELA TAYLOR, MALCOLM THURLBY, ANN WILLIAMS.
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