David Bates 
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012

A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this important period of history.


This volume of
Anglo-Norman Studies demonstrates yet again the multi-disciplinarity and European range of the series. As befits the proceedings of a conference held in Normandy at Bayeux, it contains two articles on the renowned Tapestry, and a consideration of the campaign of 1066; there are also several papers on the medieval duchy, their topics including its early tenth-century origins, the abbesses of Norman nunneries, abbatial investitures in the context of religious reform, the reign of Robert Curthose, the charters of a major aristocratic family, and historical writing in and around late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Normandy.

Alongside these are articleson landscape and belief, villein manumissions and the theology of the incarnation, the evolution of criminal law in Scotland, Bohemond of Antioch, the architectural historian John Bilson, and important aspects of twelfth-centurypoetry.


David Bates is a Professorial Fellow at the University of East Anglia and was until recently a Visiting Professor at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie.


Contributors: Lesley Abrams, Bernard S. Bachrach, Steven Biddlecombe, Alexandrina Buchanan, Howard B. Clarke, Edoardo D’Angelo, Gregory Fedorenko, Jean-Hervé Foulon, George Garnett, Véronique Gazeau, Paul R. Hyams, Sylvette Lemagnen, Monika Otter, Daniel Power, Alice Taylor, C.S. Watkins.

Innehållsförteckning

Editor’s Preface

A Three-cornered Dynamic of Redemption in the ’Long’ Thirteenth Century: Villein Manumissions and the Theology of the Incarnation [
The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2011] – Paul Hyams

Femmes en religion, personnes d’autorité: les abbesses normandes [XIe-XIIIe siècles] [
The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2012] – Véronique Gazeau

The Role of the Curator of the Bayeux Tapestry – Sylvette Lemagnen

Early Normandy – Lesley Abrams

The Norman Conquest, Countess Adela, and Abbot Baudri – Bernard S Bachrach

Baldric of Bourgueil and the Flawed Hero – Steven J. Biddlecombe

John Bilson [1856-1943] and the Study of Anglo-Norman Romanesque – Alexandrina Buchanan

The Identity of the Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry – Howard B. Clarke

The Pseudo-Hugh Falcandus in his own Texts – Edoardo D’Angelo

The Thirteenth-Century
Chronique de Normandie – Gregory Fedorenko

Les investitures abbatiales en Normandie: quelques réflexions autour du cas de l’abbaye du Bec-Hellouin [1034-1136] – Jean-Hervé Foulon

Robert Curthose: The Duke who Lost His Trousers – George Garnett

Sufficientia: A Horatian Topos and the Boundaries of the Self in Three Twelfth-Century Poems – Monika C Otter

Aristocratic
Acta in Normandy and England,
c.1150-
c.1250: The Charters and Letters of the Du Hommet constables of Normandy – Daniel Power

Crime without Punishment: Medieval Scottish Law in Comparative Perspective – Alice Taylor

Landscape and Belief in Anglo-Norman England – Carl S. Watkins

Om författaren

STEVEN J. BIDDLECOMBE edited the Latin text of Baldric’s Historia (2014); having taught at a number of universities, most recently at Nottingham Trent; he is currently an independent scholar.