William North 
The Haskins Society Journal 23 [PDF ebook] 
2011. Studies in Medieval History

The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to Angevins.


This volume of the
Haskins Society Journal furthers the Society’s commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worldsbut also on the continent.

The topics of the essays it contains range from the curious place of
Francia in the historiography of medieval Europe to strategies of royal land distribution in tenth-century Anglo-Saxon England to the representation of men and masculinity in the works of Anglo-Norman historians. Essays on the place of polemical literature in Frutolf of Michelsberg’s
Chronicle, exploration of the relationship between chivalryand crusading in Baudry of Bourgeuil’s History, and Cosmas of Prague’s manipulation of historical memory in the service of ecclesiastical privilege and priority each extend the volume’s engagement with medieval historiography, employing rich continental examples to do so. Investigations of comital personnel in Anjou and Henry II’s management of royal forests and his foresters shed new light on the evolving nature of secular governance in the twelfth centuries and challenge and refine important aspects of our view of medieval rule in this period. The volume ends with a wide-ranging reflection on the continuing importance of the art object itself in medieval history and visual studies.


Contributors: H.F. Doherty, Kathryn Dutton, Kirsten Fenton, Paul Fouracre, Herbert Kessler, Ryan Lavelle, Thomas J.H. Mc Carthy, Lisa Wolverton, Simon Yarrow.

Table of Content

Francia and the History of Medieval Europe – Paul Fouracre

Royal Control and the Disposition of Estates in Tenth-Century England: Reflections on the Charters of King Eadwig (955-959) – Ryan Lavelle

Frutolf of Michelsberg’s
Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg, and the Transmission of Imperial Polemic – Thomas J.H. Mc Carthy

Manipulating Historical Memory: Cosmas on the Sees of Prague and Olomouc – Lisa Wolverton

Poetry and History: Baudry of Bourgueil, the Architecture of Chivalry, and the First Crusade – Jay C. Rubenstein

Men and Masculinities at the Courts of the Anglo-Norman kings in the
Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis – Simon Yarrow

Men and masculinities in William of Malmesbury’s presentation of the Anglo-Norman court – Kirsten Fenton

The Murder of Gilbert the Forester – Hugh Doherty

The Object as Subject in Medieval Art – Herbert Kessler

About the author

RYAN LAVELLE is Professor of Early Medieval History in the Department of History at the University of Winchester.