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.
Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine Weikert
Tabla de materias
Editor’s Preface – Elisabeth M C van Houts
Henry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City and the Wider World – Edmund King
Episcopal
acta in Normandy, 911-1204: the charters of the bishops of Avranches, Coutances and Sées – Richard Allen
Richard II de Normandie: figure princière et transferts culturels (fin dixième- début onzième siècle) – Pierre Bauduin
Royal Inauguration and the Liturgical Calendar in England, France and the Empire
c. 1050-
c. 1250 – Johanna Dale
History, Prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth’s
Historia Regum Britanniae – Jennifer Farrell
Canterbury Cathedral Priory’s Bath House and Fish Pond – Peter Fergusson
Tam Anglis quam Danis: ‘Old Norse’ Terminology in the
Constitutiones de foresta – Sara Harris
Quadripartitus,
Leges Henrici Primi and the Scholarship of English Law in the Early Twelfth Century – Nicholas Karn
John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy – Lauren Mancia
Trade and Travel in England during the Long Twelfth Century – Eljas Oksanen
The Emperor’s Robe: Thomas Becket and Angevin Political Culture – Gesine Oppitz-Trotman
The Illustrated Archetype of the
Historia Normannorum: Did Dudo of Saint-Quentin write a ‘chronicon pictum’? – Benjamin Pohl
The Biography of a Place: Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire
c. 900-1200 – Katherine Weikert
Sobre el autor
NICHOLAS KARN is Associate Professor of History in the University of Southampton.
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