C.P. Lewis 
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXI [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2008

A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY


The contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of Huntingdon’s representation of civil war; on the political intent of the poems in the anonymous Life of Edward the Confessor; on William of Malmesbury’s depiction of Henry I; and on the influence upon historians of the late antique history attributed to Hegesippus. A paper on Gerald of Wales and Merlin brings valuable literary insights to bear. Other pieces tackle religious history (northern monasteries during the Anarchy, the abbey of Tiron) and politics (family history across the Conquest, the Norman brothers Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser, the friendship network of King Stephen’s family). The volume begins with Judith Green’s Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, which provides a wide-ranging account of kingship, lordsihp and community in eleventh-century England.


CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Green, Janet Burton, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Sebastien Danielo, Emma Mason, Ad Putter, Kathleen Thompson, Jean A. Truax, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Björn Weiler, Neil Wright

Table of Content

Preface – C P Lewis

Kingship, Lordship, and Community in Eleventh-Century England [
R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture] – Judith Green

Citadels of God: Monasteries, Violence, and the Struggle for Power in Northern England, 1135-1154 – Janet Burton

Writing Civil War in Henry of Huntingdon’s
Historia Anglorum – Catherine A M Clarke

Land, Family, and Depredation: The Case of St Benet of Holme’s Manor of Little Melton – Sébastien Danielo

Brothers at Court: Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser – Emma Mason

Gerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin – Ad Putter

The First Hundred Years of the Abbey of Tiron: Institutionalizing the Reform of the Forest Hermits – Kathleen Thompson

All Roads Lead to Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135 – Jean A Truax

The
Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey – Elizabeth M. Tyler

William of Malmesbury, King Henry I, and the
Gesta Regum Anglorum – Björn Weiler

Twelfth-Century Receptions of a Text: Anglo-Norman Historians and Hegesippus – Neil Wright

About the author

Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history.