A particular area of interest in this volume is the landscape and economy of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, with papers on castles, deer parks, marshlands, fisheries, and taxation. Two complementary papers discuss neglected aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry: gesture, and the representation of identity and status. Other papers survey the deaths of kings, the role of the Norman vicomte, the estates of the king's wife in Anglo-Saxon England, and lay piety. John Gillingham's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture considers right conduct in battle.
CHRIS LEWIS is Reader in History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and VCH Editor for Sussex.
Contributors: JOHN GILLINGHAM, STEPHEN CHURCH, MARK GARDINER, ALBAN GAUTIER, MARK HAGGER, RYAN LAVELLE, MICHAEL LEWIS, ANDREW LOWERRE, GALE OWEN-CROCKER, HUGH THOMAS, HIROKAZU TSURUSHIMA, ANDREW WAREHAM AND XIANG DONG WEI.
Details
First Published: 19 Jul 2007
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843833093
Pages: 242
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Anglo-Norman StudiesSubject:
Medieval HistoryBIC Class: HBLC1
Details updated on 02 Sep 2010
Contents
- 1 `Holding to the Rules of War (Bellica Iura Tenentes)': Right Conduct before, during, and after Battle in North-Western Europe in the Eleventh Century (R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)Century (R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)
- 2 Aspects of the English Succession, 1066-1199: The Death of the King
- 3 The Transformation of Marshlands in Anglo-Norman England
- 4 Game Parks in Sussex and the Godwinesons
- 5 The Norman Vicomte, c.1035-1135: What Did He Do?
- 6 The King's Wife and Family Property Strategies: Late Anglo-Saxon Wessex, 871-1066
- 7 Identity and Status in the Bayeux Tapestry: The Iconographic and Artefactual Evidence
- 8 Why Here and Not There? The Location of Early Norman Castles in the South-Eastern Midlands
- 9 The Interpretation of Gesture in the Bayeux Tapestry
- 10 Lay Piety in England from 1066 to 1215
- 11 The Eleventh Century in England through Fish-Eyes: Salmon, Herring, Oysters, and 1066
- 12 Taxation and the Economy in Late Eleventh-Century England: Reviving the Domesday Regression Debate
