This volume contains the usual wide range of topics, and offers some unusual and provocative perspectives, including an examination of what the evidence of zooarchaeology can reveal about the Conquest. The other subjects discussed are the battle of Alençon; the impact of rebellion on Little Domesday; Lawrence of Durham; Thomas Becket; Peter of Blois; Anglo-French peace conferences; episcopal elections and the loss of Normandy; Norman identity in southern Italian chronicles; and the Normans on crusade. The contributors, from Germany, France and Denmark as well as Britain, and the United States, are RICHARD BARTON, NAOMI SYKES, LUCY MARTEN, MIA MÜNSTER-SWENDSEN, JOHN D. COTTS, J.E.M. BENHAM, JÖRG PELTZER, JULIE BARRAU, EMILY ALBU, EWAN JOHNSON, G. A. LOUD, HANNA VOLLRATH.
Reviews
Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. [...]As usual, every Anglo-Normanist will find something of interest in this volume. MEDIUM AEVUM
Details
First Published: 15 Jul 2005
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843831327
Pages: 222
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Anglo-Norman StudiesSubject:
Medieval HistoryBIC Class: HBLC1
Details updated on 04 Feb 2012
Contents
- 1 Probing the Passions of a Norman on Crusade: the Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum
- 2 Gilbert Foliot et l'Ecriture, un exégète en politique
- 3 Writing Warfare, Lordship and History: the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum's Account of the Battle of Alençon
- 4 Anglo-French Peace Conferences in the Twelfth Century
- 5 Peter of Blois and the Problem of the `Court' in the Late Twelfth Century
- 6 Normandy and Norman Identity in Southern Italian Chronicles
- 7 Monastic Chronicles in the Twelth-Century Abruzzi
- 8 The Impact of the Rebellion on Little Domesday
- 9 Setting Things Straight: Law, Justice and Ethics in the Orationes of Lawrence of Durham
- 10 The Angevin Kings and Canon Law: Episcopal Elections and the Loss of Normandy
- 11 Zooarchaeology of the Norman Conquest
- 12 Was Thomas Becket Chaste? Understanding Episodes in the Becket Lives
