Anglo-Norman Studies XXXVII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2014

Product Description
The contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of Duke Richard II and Abbot John of Fécamp in early Normandy; political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's motivation for his
Historia Regum Britonum; twelfth-century legal scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal acta from the south-western Norman dioceses.

Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine Weikert


Table of Contents

Editor's Preface - Elisabeth M C van Houts
Henry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City and the Wider World - Edmund King
Episcopal
acta in Normandy, 911-1204: the charters of the bishops of Avranches, Coutances and Sées - Richard Allen
Richard II de Normandie: figure princière et transferts culturels (fin dixième- début onzième siècle) - Pierre Bauduin
Royal Inauguration and the Liturgical Calendar in England, France and the Empire
c. 1050-
c. 1250 - Johanna Dale
History, Prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth's
Historia Regum Britanniae - Jennifer Farrell
Canterbury Cathedral Priory's Bath House and Fish Pond - Peter Fergusson

Tam Anglis quam Danis: 'Old Norse' Terminology in the
Constitutiones de foresta - Sara Harris

Quadripartitus,
Leges Henrici Primi and the Scholarship of English Law in the Early Twelfth Century - Nicholas Karn
John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy - Lauren Mancia
Trade and Travel in England during the Long Twelfth Century - Eljas Oksanen
The Emperor's Robe: Thomas Becket and Angevin Political Culture - Gesine Oppitz-Trotman
The Illustrated Archetype of the
Historia Normannorum: Did Dudo of Saint-Quentin write a 'chronicon pictum'? - Benjamin Pohl
The Biography of a Place: Faccombe Netherton, Hampshire
c. 900-1200 - Katherine Weikert
Review
Like its predecessors...this volume of proceedings will be essential reading for academics working in Anglo-Norman studies and students of the period of all levels. Long may this series continue.--SOUTHERN HISTORY
About the Author
Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellow