Elisabeth M C van Houts 
Anglo-Norman Studies XXXVIII 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2015

A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History


This volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area. It begins with an appropriately timely chapter on the Magna Carta, the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, given by John Hudson. Further topics include seals; English towns and urban society after the Norman Conquest; the records of Barking Abbey; the Bayeux Tapestry; monastic writing; and medical practitioners in Normandy.


Contributors: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Casey Beaumont, Elma Brenner, Giles Gasper, Kate Hammond, John Hudson, Alan Murray, Jean-François Nieus, Jonathan Paletta, Susan Raich, Luigi Rosso, Miri Rubin, Hugh Thomas.

قائمة المحتويات

From the Articles of the Barons to Magna Carta – John Hudson

Jews in the Glosses of a Late Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Gratian Manuscript [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 283/676] – Anna Sapir Abulafia

Monastic Autonomy, Episcopal Authority and the Norman Conquest: the records of Barking Abbey – Casey Beaumont

Economy Distorted, Economy Restored: order, economy and salvation in Anglo-Norman monastic writing – Giles E.M. Gasper

Monastic Patronage and Family Disputes in Eleventh- and Early Twelfth-Century Normandy – Kate Hammond

Constance, Princess of Antioch [1130-1164]: ancestry, marriages and family – Alan V Murray

Early Aristocratic Seals: an Anglo-Norman success story – Jean-François Nieus

English Towns and Urban Society after the Norman Conquest – Jonathan Paletta

Wreck of Sea in Law and Practice in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England – Susan Raich

Social Life and Religious Culture in Twelfth-Century Norwich and Norfolk – Miri Rubin

Bad crusaders? The Normans of Southern Italy and the Crusading Movement in the Twelfth Century – Luigi Russo

Turold, Wadard, and Vitalis: Why are they on the Bayeux Tapestry? – Hugh M Thomas

عن المؤلف

Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham