BOOKS - Anglo Norman Studies XL: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2017
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490076
490076
Anglo Norman Studies XL: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2017
Author: Elisabeth van Houts
Year: June 1, 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 13 MB
Language: English
Year: June 1, 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 13 MB
Language: English
The wide-ranging articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent Anglo-Norman scholarship. Topics include English kingship, legends of the Battle of Bouvines, ideas of empire, the practicalities of child kingship, and female rulership in Brittany. The volume continues in its proud tradition of source analysis: there are studies of northern French urban franchises, and Norman charters and a logistical take on the making of the Domesday Book, while narrative sources are represented in the vernacular by a study of Herman of Valenciennes' Bible and in Latin by the historiography of Robert of Torigni and Ralph Niger. Further contributions focus on the twelfth-century ecclesiastical officers Abbot Peter the Venerable and Archbishop Thomas Becket, and the volume is completed with an analysis of the concept of economic resources with respect to Normandy.