C.P. Lewis 
Anglo-Norman Studies XXX 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2007

The latest collection of articles on Anglo-Norman topics, with a particular focus on Wales.


The 2007 conference on Anglo-Norman Studies, the thirtieth in the annual series, was held in Wales, and there is a Welsh flavour to the proceedings now published. Five of the thirteen papers cover Welsh topics in the long twelfthcentury: Church reform, political culture, the supposed resurgence of Powys as a political entity, and interpreter families in the Marches, besides a broad and compelling historiographical survey of the place of the Normans in Welsh history. Twelfth-century England is represented by papers on chivalry and kingship [in literature and life], the Evesham surveys, lay charters, and Henry of Blois and the arts. Essays which focus on the southern Italian city of Trani and on the crusader history of Ralph of Caen explore wider Norman identities. Finally, there are two broad surveys contextualizing the Anglo-Norman experience: on the careers of the clergy and on how warriors were identified before heraldry.


CONTRIBUTORS: HUW PRYCE, LAURA ASHE, JULIA BARROW, HOWARD B. CLARKE, JOHN REUBEN DAVIES, JUDITH EVERARD, NATASHA HODGSON, CHARLES INSLEY, ROBERT JONES, PAUL OLDFIELD, DAVID STEPHENSON, FREDERICK SUPPE, JEFFREY WEST.

Table of Content

The Normans in Welsh History – Huw Pryce

William Marshal, Lancelot, and Arthur: Chivalry and Kingship – Laura Ashe

Grades of Ordination and Clerical Careers,
c. 900-
c. 1200 – Julia Barrow

Evesham J and Evesham L: Two Early Twelfth-Century Manorial Surveys – Howard B. Clarke

Aspects of Church Reform in Wales,
c. 1093-
c. 1223 – John Davies

Lay Charters and the
Acta of Henry II – Judith Everard

Reinventing Normans as Crusaders? Ralph of Caen’s
Gesta Tancredi – Natasha R. Hodgson

Kings, Lords, Charters, and the Political Culture of Twelfth-Century Wales – Charles Insley

Identifying the Warrior on the Pre-Heraldic Battlefield – Robert W. Jones

St Nicholas the Pilgrim and the City of Trani between Greeks and Normans, c. 1090-c. 1140 – Paul Oldfield

The `Resurgence’ of Powys in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries – David Stephenson

Interpreter Families and Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Shropshire-Powys Marches in the Twelfth Century – Frederick C Suppe

A Taste for the Antique? Henry of Blois and the Arts – Jeffrey West

About the author

Robert W. Jones is Alumni Association Coordinator and tutor at Advanced Studies in England, an independent study abroad programme based in Bath, England. He is also a Visiting Scholar in History at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.