John B Gillingham 
Anglo-Norman Studies XXVI [PDF ebook] 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003

The sense of a group of scholars sharing work in progress comes over on numerous occasions… a series which is a model of its kind. EDMUND KING, HISTORY


The emphasis in this collection of recent work on the Anglo-Norman realm is particularly on narrative sources: Dudo, Vita Ædwardi Regis, monastic chronicle audiences in the Fens, the chronicles of Anjou, the Warenne view of the past – and much later sources for stereotypical images of the Normans. There are also papers analysing both charter and chronicle evidence in reconsiderations of the succession disputes following the deaths of William I and William II. Papers range geographically from Anjou to the Irish Sea zone. Contributors, from France and Germany as well as from Britain, Ireland and the US, are BERNARD S. BACHRACH, RICHARD BARBER, JULIA BARROW, CLARE DOWNHAM, VERONIQUE GAZEAU, JOHN GRASSI, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, JENNIFER PAXTON, NEIL STREVETT, NEIL WRIGHT.

Innehållsförteckning

R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture: The Norman Conquest and the Media – Richard Barber

Dudo of St Quentin and Norman Military Strategy ca. 1000 – Bernard S Bachrach

Clergy in the diocese of Hereford in the eleventh and twelfth centuries – Julia Barrow

England and the Irish-Sea Zone in the Eleventh Century – Clare Downham

Les abbés bénédictins de la Normandie ducale – Véronique Gazeau

The
Vita AEdwardi Regis The Hagiographer as Insider – John Grassi

The Warenne View of the Past, 1066-1203 – Elisabeth M C van Houts

Textual Communities in the English Fenlands: A Lay Audience for Monastic Chronicles? – Jennifer Paxton

1088-William II and the Rebels – Richard Sharpe

The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered – Neil Strevett

Epic and Romance in the Chronicles of Anjou – Neil Wright

Om författaren

Richard Sharpe FBA (1954-2020) Professor of Diplomatic in the University of Oxford, and President of the Surtees Society from 2002, was one of Britain’s most eminent manuscript scholars with over 200 publications before he died. He left unfinished his study of the early deeds of the great Benedictine abbey of St Mary in York, which has been completed in his memory by the society.