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Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their
enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete
histories. Such treatments are valid and valuable, but historical
understanding of the Normans also depends as much on broader
approaches akin to those adopted in this book. As the successor
volume to Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and
Contrasts, it complements and significantly extends its findings to
provide a fuller appreciation of the roles played by the Normans as
one of the most dynamic and transformative forces in the history of
medieval 'Outer Europe'. It includes panoramic essays that dissect
the conceptual and methodological issues concerned, suggest
strategies for avoiding associated pitfalls, and indicate how far
and in what ways the Normans and their legacies served to reshape
sociopolitical landscapes across a vast geography extending from
the remoter corners of the British Isles to the Mediterranean
basin. Leading experts in their fields also provide case-by-case
analyses, set within and between different areas, of themes such as
lordship and domination, identities and identification, naming
patterns, marriage policies, saints' cults, intercultural
exchanges, and diaspora- homeland connections. The Normans and the
'Norman Edge' therefore presents a potent combination of
thought-provoking overviews and fresh insights derived from new
research, and its wide-ranging comparative focus has the advantage
of illuminating aspects of the Norman past that traditional
regional or national histories often do not reveal so clearly. It
likewise makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship
by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and
'state-formation'; the extent to which Norman practices and
priorities were distinctive; the balance between continuity and
innovation; relations between the Normans and the indigenous
peoples and cultures they encountered; and, not least, forms of
Norman identity and their resilience over time. An extensive
bibliography is also one of this book's strengths.
Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their
enterprises and achievements as a series of separate and discrete
histories. Such treatments are valid and valuable, but historical
understanding of the Normans also depends as much on broader
approaches akin to those adopted in this book. As the successor
volume to Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and
Contrasts, it complements and significantly extends its findings to
provide a fuller appreciation of the roles played by the Normans as
one of the most dynamic and transformative forces in the history of
medieval 'Outer Europe'. It includes panoramic essays that dissect
the conceptual and methodological issues concerned, suggest
strategies for avoiding associated pitfalls, and indicate how far
and in what ways the Normans and their legacies served to reshape
sociopolitical landscapes across a vast geography extending from
the remoter corners of the British Isles to the Mediterranean
basin. Leading experts in their fields also provide case-by-case
analyses, set within and between different areas, of themes such as
lordship and domination, identities and identification, naming
patterns, marriage policies, saints' cults, intercultural
exchanges, and diaspora-homeland connections. The Normans and the
'Norman Edge' therefore presents a potent combination of
thought-provoking overviews and fresh insights derived from new
research, and its wide-ranging comparative focus has the advantage
of illuminating aspects of the Norman past that traditional
regional or national histories often do not reveal so clearly. It
likewise makes a major contribution to current Norman scholarship
by reconsidering the links between Norman expansion and
'state-formation'; the extent to which Norman practices and
priorities were distinctive; the balance between continuity and
innovation; relations between the Normans and the indigenous
peoples and cultures they encountered; and, not least, forms of
Norman identity and their resilience over time. An extensive
bibliography is also one of this book's strengths.
How was the United Kingdom formed? How - and to what extent - were
Scotland, Ireland and Wales incorporated into a unified British
polity? These were the themes of the 63rd Anglo-American Conference
of Historians, 1994, on "The Formation of the United Kingdom". This
is a collection of studies based on that conference, in which a
team drawn from British and Irish historians explores the whole
span of British/United Kingdom history. Traditional chronological
frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and
modernists all address such issues as expansion and contraction,
political tensions and conflicting historiographies. This
collection of essays forms an introduction to current thinking
about the problems of "British" history and identities.
Essays consider the changes and development of Scotland at a time
of considerable flux in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The
years between the deaths of King Mael Coluim and Queen Margaret in
1093 and King Alexander III in 1286 witnessed the formation of a
kingdom resembling the Scotland we know today, which was a full
member of the European club ofmonarchies; the period is also marked
by an explosion in the production of documents. This volume
includes a range of new studies casting fresh light on the
institutions and people of the Scottish kingdom, especially in
thethirteenth century. New perspectives are offered on topics as
diverse as the limited reach of Scottish royal administration and
justice, the ties that bound the unfree to their lords, the extent
of a political community in the time of King Alexander II, a view
of Europeanization from the spread of a common material culture,
the role of a major Cistercian monastery in the kingdom and the
broader world, and the idea of the neighbourhood in Scots law.
There are also chapters on the corpus of charters and names and the
innovative technology behind the People of Medieval Scotland
prosopographical database, which made use of over 6000 individual
documents from the period. Matthew Hammond is a Research Associate
at the University of Glasgow. Contributors: John Bradley, Stuart
Campbell, David Carpenter, Matthew Hammond, Emilia Jamroziak,
Cynthia Neville, Michele Pasin, Keith Stringer, Alice Taylor.
In Uniting the Kingdom? a group of the most distinguished
historians from Britain and Ireland assemble to consider the
question of British identity spanning the period from the Middle
Ages to the present.
Traditional chronological and regional frontiers are broken down
as medievalists, early modernists and modernists debate the key
issues of the British state: the conflicting historiographies, the
nature of political tensions and the themes of expansion and
contraction.
This outstanding collection of essays forms an illuminating
introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of
British histories and identities.
First full-length survey of the fluid relationship between these
two areas at a time of rapid change. This book provides the first
comprehensive analysis of the development of northern England and
southern Scotland in the formative era of the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries. How did "middle Britain" come to be divided
between twoseparate unitary kingdoms called "England" and
"Scotland"? How, and how differently, was government exercised and
experienced? How did people identify themselves by their languages
and naming practices? What major themes can be detected in the
development of ecclesiastical structures and religious culture?
What can be learned about the rural and the emerging urban
environments in terms of lordly exploitation and control,
settlement patterns and how the landscape itself evolved? These are
among the key questions addressed by the contributors, who bring to
bear multi-faceted approaches to medieval "middle Britain". Above
all, by pursuing similarities and differences from a comparative
"transnational" perspective it becomes clearer how the "old"
interacted with the "new", what was exceptional and what was not,
and how far the histories of northern England and southern Scotland
point to common or not so commonfoundations and trajectories. KEITH
STRINGER is Professor Emeritus of Medieval British History at
Lancaster University; ANGUS WINCHESTER is Professor Emeritus of
Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. Contributors:
Richard Britnell, Dauvit Broun, Janet Burton, David Ditchburn,
Philip Dixon, Piers Dixon, Fiona Edmonds, Richard Oram, Keith
Stringer, Chris Tabraham, Simon Taylor, Angus J.L. Winchester.
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