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.
Author(s): Elisabeth van Houts (ed.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2018
Language: English, French
Pages: 234
City: Woodbridge
ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES vii
EDITOR’S PREFACE ix
ABBREVIATIONS xi
English Kingship: the View from Paris, 1066–1204 (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2017) / Nicholas Vincent 1
Audacity and Ambition in Early Norman England and the Big Stuff of the Conquest (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2016) / C. P. Lewis 25
Ressources et croissance dans le monde anglo-normand: sources et hypothèses / Mathieu Arnoux 53
Becket vult: the Appropriation of St. Thomas Becket’s Image during the Canterbury Dispute, 1184–1200 (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay) / James Barnaby 63
La Bataille de Bouvines reconsiderée / Dominique Barthélemy 77
Abbot Peter the Venerable’s Two Missions to England (1130 and 1155/1156) / Scott G. Bruce 91
La production manuscrite anglo-normande et la 'Bible' d’Herman de Valenciennes: usage et réception d’un livre vernaculaire (xiie–xive siècles) / Francis Gingras 107
Ralph Niger and the Books of Kings / Frédérique Lachaud 125
From Captivity to Liberation: the Ideology and Practice of Franchise in Crusading France / Anne E. Lester 147
‘Daughter of Fulk, Glory of Brittany’: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany (c. 1070–1147) / Amy Livingstone 165
The Idea of ‘Empire’ as Hegemonic Power under the Norman and Plantagenet Kings (1066–1204) / Fanny Madeline 179
Child Kingship and Notions of (Im)maturity in North-Western Europe, 1050–1262 / Emily Joan Ward 197
Note: A Micro-Economy of Salvation: Further Thoughts on the ‘Annuary’ of Robert of Torigni / Thomas N. Bisson 213
