The contemporary historians of Anglo-Norman England form a particular focus of this issue. There are contributions on Henry of Huntingdon's representation of civil war; on the political intent of the poems in the anonymous Life of Edward the Confessor; on William of Malmesbury's depiction of Henry I; and on the influence upon historians of the late antique history attributed to Hegesippus. A paper on Gerald of Wales and Merlin brings valuable literary insights to bear. Other pieces tackle religious history [northern monasteries during the Anarchy, the abbey of Tiron] and politics [family history across the Conquest, the Norman brothers Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser, the friendship network of King Stephen's family]. The volume begins with Judith Green's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, which provides a wide-ranging account of kingship, lordsihp and community in eleventh-century England.
CONTRIBUTORS: Judith Green, Janet Burton, Catherine A. M. Clarke, Sebastien Danielo, Emma Mason, Ad Putter, Kathleen Thompson, Jean A. Truax, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Björn Weiler, Neil Wright
Details
First Published: 16 Jul 2009
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843834731
Pages: 220
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Anglo-Norman StudiesSubject:
Medieval HistoryBIC Class: HBLC1
Details updated on 08 Feb 2012
Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 Kingship, Lordship, and Community in Eleventh-Century England [R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture]
- 3 Citadels of God: Monasteries, Violence, and the Struggle for Power in Northern England, 1135-1154
- 4 Writing Civil War in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum
- 5 Land, Family, and Depredation: The Case of St Benet of Holme's Manor of Little Melton
- 6 Brothers at Court: Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser
- 7 Gerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin
- 8 The First Hundred Years of the Abbey of Tiron: Institutionalizing the Reform of the Forest Hermits
- 9 All Roads Lead to Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135
- 10 The Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey
- 11 William of Malmesbury, King Henry I, and the Gesta Regum Anglorum
- 12 Twelfth-Century Receptions of a Text: Anglo-Norman Historians and Hegesippus
