Essays illuminating a wide range of topics from Cistercian preachers and the ‘geography’ of purgatory to royal and ecclesiastical justice and power.
This volume continues the Society’s commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages and demonstrates its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yields new insights into or important recalibrations of our understanding of the past.
It begins by surveying the works of the Greek Fathers rendered into Latin in late antiquity, exploring their reception and deployment in England before the conquest. The twelfth century occupies a central place in this volume. Four papers offer close readings or re-readings of key authors or sources: one reconstructs William of Malmesbury’s journeys in the mid-1130s; another offers a new reading of two of Aelred of Rievaulx’s royal biographies; a third considers the influence of Henry of Marcy on Herbert of Clairvaux’s
Liber visionum et miraculorum Clarevallensium; and a fourth examines the
Historia Gaufredi Ducis and its outsized impact on the history of the ritual of dubbing.
Two papers address royal and ecclesiastical justice in mid-thirteenth-century France through meticulous work with archival sources: they respectively consider the case of Geoffroy de Milly and limits of sovereign authority and
enquêtes as a technique of power. Further topics include the emerging ‘geography’ of purgatory in the imagination of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; the different dimensions of medieval institutional culture as seen in the intersection of earthly and angelic power in Angevin England (placed in dialogue with American medieval historiography); and the evolving historiographical treatment of men of the Church employed as trusted administrators by Italian communes.
The volume concludes with two essays on significant moments in the history of American medieval studies: examinations of the publication history of Evelyn Faye Wilson’s
Stella Maris of John of Garland and of the life, scholarship and legacy of Bennett David Hill round out the volume.
Inhoudsopgave
1. Reading the Greek Fathers in Latin in Pre-Conquest England –
Scott Bruce
2. Journey to the South: The Travels of William of Malmesbury in the Mid-1130s –
Ming Liu
3. Kings in the Cloister: Contemporary Reception of Aelred of Rievaulx’s Royal Biographies –
W. Tanner Smoot
4. Heretics, Miracles, and Cistercian Preachers: The Influence of Henry of Marcy on Herbert of Clairvaux’s
Liber visionum et miraculorum Clarevallensium –
Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow
5. Some Problems of the Peace: Angels in America (and Angevin England) –
Simon Yarrow
6. Purgatory Revisited –
Carl Watkins
7. The Exemplary Knighting of Geoffrey Plantagenet: A Historiographical and Documentary Reappraisal –
Arnaud Montreuil
8. The Repentance of Geoffroy de Milly: Anger, Penance, and the Limits of Sovereign Authority in Thirteenth-Century France –
Anne E. Lester
9. The Politics of Witnessing:
Enquêtes as a Technique of Power in Thirteenth-Century France –
Richard E. Barton
10. Taking it on Trust? Writing about Officials in the Medieval Italian Communes –
Frances Andrews
11. Evelyn Faye Wilson and the Publication History of The Stella Maris of John of Garland –
William Chester Jordan
12. The Life, Scholarship and Legacy of Bennett David Hill, 1934-2005 –
Randall Todd Pippenger
Over de auteur
Carl Watkins is Professor in British History at Cambridge University. He is a historian of medieval religious, cultural and political history, concentrating especially on the British Isles in the central and later middle ages, who has also written about death and the supernatural in English culture over a longer chronological span (extending over the middle ages and early modernity).
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