Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIX
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254 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

6 colour, 12 b/w illus.

Series: Anglo-Norman Studies

Series Vol. Number: 39

Imprint: Boydell Press

Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIX

Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2016

Edited by Elisabeth M C van Houts

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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. MEDIUM AEVUM

This year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. Topics include the forging of the Battle Abbey Chronicle; warring schoolmasters in eleventh-century Rouen; theimpact of the Conquest on England; the circulation of manuscripts between England and Normandy; and Earl Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross.

Contributors: Julie Barrau, Christopher Clark, Laura Cleaver, Stefan de Jong, Simon Keynes, Tom Licence, Brigitte Meijns, Thomas O'Donnell, Alheydis Plassman, Elisabeth Ridel, Chris Whittick, Ann Williams
Why Do Battles Matter? - Christopher M. Clark
From Conquest to Commonwealth: Cross-Channel Circulation of Biblical Culture in the Anglo-Norman World - Julie Barrau
Documentation, Forgery and the Making of the Chronicle of Battle Abbey (British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A II) - Laura Cleaver
Rival Schoolmasters in Early Eleventh-Century Rouen with Special Reference to the Poetry of Warner of Rouen (fl. 996-1027) (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay) - Stefan de Jong
Remembering the Battle of Hastings: Memorialization, le Souvenir Normand, and the Entente Cordiale - Brian Golding
Earl Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross (1062) - Simon Keynes
Edward the Confessor and the Succession Question: A Fresh Look at the Sources - Tom Licence
England and Flanders Around 1066: The Cult of the English Saints Oswald and Lewinna in the Comital Abbey of Bergues - Brigitte Meijns
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio: Politics and the Poetics of 1067 - Thomas O'Donnell
England and Germany: Two Perspectives - Alheydis Plassmann
Les préparatifs nautiques de la Conquête: un héritage viking? Les mots ont la parole... - Elisabeth Ridel
Battle Abbey and the Vellomaniacs - Locating the Monastic Archive - Christopher Whittick, Senior Archivist
Of Danes and Thegns and Domesday Book: Scandinavian Settlement in eleventh-century Berkshire - Ann Williams

Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

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Title Details

254 Pages

2.34 x 1.56 cm

6 colour, 12 b/w illus.

Series: Anglo-Norman Studies

Series Vol. Number: 39

Imprint: Boydell Press