William North & Laura L Gathagan 
The Haskins Society Journal 27 [PDF ebook] 
2015. Studies in Medieval History

Wide-ranging and current research into the Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds.


This volume of the
Haskins Society Journal brings together a rich and interdisciplinary collection of articles. Topics range from the politics and military organization of northern worlds of the Anglo-Normans and Angevins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, to the economic activity of women in Catalonia and political unrest in thirteenth-century Tripoli. Martin Millett’s chapter on the significance of rural life in Roman Britain for the early Middle Ages continues the
Journal’s commitment to archaeological approaches to medieval history, while contributions on Ælfric’s complex use of sources in his homilies, Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s reinterpretation of the Alfredian past, and the little known
History of Alfred of Beverly engage with crucial questions of sources and historiographical production within Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England. Pieces on the political meaning of the Empress Helena and Constantine I for Angevin political ambitions and the role of relics such as the Holy Lance in strategies of political legitimation in Anglo-Saxon England and Ottonian Germany in the tenth century complete the volume.


Contributors: David Bachrach, Mark Blincoe, Katherine Cross, Sarah Ifft Decker, Joyce Hill, Katherine Hodges-Kluck, Jesse Izzo, Martin Millett, John Patrick Slevin, Oliver Stoutner, Laura Wangerin.

Tabla de materias

Rural Settlement in Roman Britain and Its Significance for the Early Medieval Period – Martin Millett

Holy Relics, Authority, and Legitimacy in Ottonian Germany and Anglo-Saxon England – Laura Wangerin

Beyond the Obvious: Ælfric and the Authority of Bede – Joyce Hill

Byrhtferth’s
Historia regum and the Transformation of the Alfredian Past – Katherine Cross

Geoffrey le Bel of Anjou and Political Inheritance in the Anglo-Norman Realm – Mark E. Blincoe

Observations on the Twelfth-century Historia of Alfred of Beverley – John Patrick Slevin

Helena, Constantine, and the Angevin Desire for Jerusalem – Katherine L. Hodges-Kluck

The Revolts of the Embriaco and the Fall of the County of Tripoli – Jesse Izzo

Jewish Women, Christian Women, and Credit in Thirteenth-Century Catalonia – Sarah Ifft Decker

Military Entrepreneurs in the Armies of Edward I (1272-1307) of England – David S. Bachrach

Sobre el autor

Dr KATHERINE CROSS is a historian of the early Middle Ages at the British Museum and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.