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The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a variety of disciplines. They begin with Elisabeth van Houts' Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, which makes a major contribution to understanding the culture of early tenth-century Normandy. A number of essays deal illuminatingly with monastic culture (both male and female) and with associated literary production, from the making of the famous Worcester cartularies to new insights into the cultural world of forgery. Reading in the monastic refectory, the high-quality of female monastic administration, the history of charters for lay beneficiaries in the kingdom of Scots, attitudes to women and power, and an exciting article on the nature of maritime communities on both sides of the Channel also feature, and there is a provocative and fascinating comparison of Henry II's and Frederick Barbarossa's respective treatments of their families.
Author(s): David Bates (ed.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations and Tables vii
Editor’s Preface ix
Abbreviations xii
The 'Planctus' on the Death of William Longsword (943) as a Source for Tenth-Century Culture in Normandy and Aquitaine (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2013) / Elisabeth van Houts 1
Biblical Vocabulary and National Discourse in Twelfth-Century England / Ilya Afanasyev 23
Border, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century / Mathieu Arnoux 39
Guerno the Forger and His Confession / Robert F. Berkhofer III 53
From Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Laura Cleaver 69
The Adoption and Routinization of Scottish Royal Charter Production for Lay Beneficiaries, 1124–1195 / Matthew Hammond 91
Women and Power in the 'Roman de Rou' of Wace / Susan M. Johns 177
Literacy and Estate Administration in a Great Anglo-Norman Nunnery: Holy Trinity, Caen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Catherine Letouzey-Réty 135
The King and His Sons: Henry II’s and Frederick Barbarossa’s Succession Strategies Compared / Alheydis Plassmann 149
In vinea Sorech laborare: The Cultivation of Unity in Twelfth-Century Monastic Historiography / Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn 167
The Redaction of Cartularies and Economic Upheaval in Western England c. 996–1096 / Andrew Wareham 189
Monastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period / Teresa Webber 221
1074 in the Twelfth Century / Emily A. Winkler 241
