David Bates 
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIV [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2011

A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History


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. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra’s treatment of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England, the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as theologian.


David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East Anglia.


Contributors: Martin Allen, Henry Bainton, Nicholas Brooks, Jonathan Grove, Toivo Holopainen, Chris Lewis, Tom Licence, Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel, Christopher Norton and Stuart Harrison, Rebecca Slitt, Stephen D. White, Ann Williams.

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Editor’s Preface –

Mints and Money in Norman England – Martin Allen

Literate Sociability and Historical Writing in Later Twelfth-Century England – Henry Bainton

The Archbishopric of Canterbury and the so-called Introduction of Knight-Service into England – Nicholas Brooks

Lastingham and the Architecture of the Benedictine Revival in Northumbria – Stuart Harrison and Christopher Norton

‘Lanfranc of Bec’ and Berengar of Tours – Toivo Holopainen

The Invention of the Manor in Norman England – C P Lewis

Herbert Losinga’s Trip to Rome and the Bishopric of Bury St Edmunds – Tom Licence

Le récit de Geoffroi Malaterra ou la légitimation de Roger, Grand Comte de Sicile – Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel

The Two Deaths of William Longsword: Wace, William of Malmesbury, and the Norman Past – Rebecca L. Slitt

The Beasts who Talk on the Bayeux Embroidery: The Fables Revisited – S.D White

The Piety of Earl Godwine – Ann Williams