William North & Laura L Gathagan 
The Haskins Society Journal 28 [PDF ebook] 
2016. Studies in Medieval History

Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.


The contributions in this volume illuminate critical aspects of the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds – and more. Essays consider the complexities of the Norman administration in North Africa, the Canterbury primacy controversy through the lens of the relics of St Ouen, and the meanings of
natura and
divinitas in the works of Bernardus Silvestris. Additional chapters explore cross-cultural definitions of masculinity articulated through the biblical figure of David, the social networks and monastic patronage of the female lords of Braine, and the links between legal classifications of adultery and thirteenth-century fabliaux. The Journal continues its focuson source criticism with explorations of two Italian sources — a Miscellany from the Piedmontese monastery of Novalesa and an overlooked Venetian source for Byzantine imperial history. A re-assessment of the legal and judicial activities of King Henry I rounds out the volume.

Contributors: JASON BAXTER, LUIGI ANDREA BERTO, APRIL HARPER, JOHN HUDSON, RUTH MAZO KARRAS, MATT KING, BRIDGET K. RILEY, EDWARD M. SCHOOLMAN, YVONNE SEALE.

Tabella dei contenuti

Under the ‘Romans’ or under the Franks? Venice between two Empires – Luigi Andrea Berto

Lost and found: Eadmer’s
De reliquiis Sancti Audoeni as a cross channel solution to the Canterbury-York Dispute – Bridget K. Riley

Of Lost Libraries and Monastic Memories: Creating the Eleventh-Century Novalesa Miscellany – Edward M. Schoolman

The Place of Henry I in English Legal History – John Hudson

‘Goliath thought David Rather Boastful’: Royal Masculinity in Kingless Societies – Ruth Karras

Well-Behaved Women? Agnès of Baudement and Agnès of Braine as Female Lords and Patrons of the Premonstratensian Order – Yvonne Seale

‘Videmus Nunc per Speculum’: The Mysticism and Naturalism of the Twelfth-Century
Imago Mundi – Jason Baxter

The Norman Kings of Africa? – Matthew King

Punishing Adultery: Private Violence, Public Honour, Literature and the Law – April Harper

Circa l’autore

LAURA L. GATHAGAN is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Cortland.