The latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world. The contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of Duke Richard II and Abbot John of Fécamp in early Normandy; political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's motivation for his 'Historia Regum Britonum'; twelfth-century legal scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal 'acta' from the south-western Norman dioceses.
Author(s): Elisabeth van Houts (ed.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2015
Language: English, French
Pages: 310
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations and Tables vii
Editor’s Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
Henry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City, and the Wider World (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2014) / Edmund King 1
Episcopal acta in Normandy, 911–1204: the Charters of the Bishops of Avranches, Coutances and Sées / Richard Allen 25
Richard II de Normandie: figure princière et transferts culturels (fin dixième – début onzième siècle) / Pierre Bauduin 53
Royal Inauguration and the Liturgical Calendar in England, France, and the Empire c. 1050 – c. 1250 / Johanna Dale 83
History, Prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 'Historia regum Britanniae' / Jennifer Farrell 99
Canterbury Cathedral Priory’s Bath House and Fish Pond / Peter Fergusson 115
'Tam Anglis quam Danis': 'Old Norse' Terminology in the 'Constitutiones de foresta' (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay, 2014) / Sara Harris 131
'Quadripartitus', 'Leges Henrici Primi' and the Scholarship of English Law in the Early Twelfth Century / Nicholas Karn 149
John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy / Lauren Mancia 161
Trade and Travel in England during the Long Twelfth Century / Eljas Oksanen 181
The Emperor’s Robe: Thomas Becket and Angevin Political Culture / Gesine Oppitz-Trotman 205
The Illustrated Archetype of the 'Historia Normannorum': Did Dudo of Saint-Quentin write a 'chronicon pictum'? / Benjamin Pohl 221
The Biography of a Place: Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire, c. 900–1200 / Katherine Weikert 253
