Elisabeth M C van Houts 
Anglo-Norman Studies XLI 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2018

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


This year’s volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. There is a particular focus on the material culture of the Norman Conquest of England and its aftermath, from study of horses and knights to its archaeologies to castle construction and the representation of a
chanson de geste on an Italian church façade. The volume also includes papers on royal and private authority in Anglo-Saxon England; the relationship between Anglo-Norman rulers and their neighbours; intellectual history; priests’ wives; and noble lepers.


Contributors: Sabina Flanagan, Hazel Freestone, Sally Harvey, Tom Lambert, Aleksandra Mc Clain, Nicholas Paul, Charlotte Pickard, David Pratt, Richard Purkiss, David Roffe, Nicolas Ruffini-Ronzani, Lucia Sinisi, Linda Stone, Naomi Sykes

Table of Content

Horses, Knights and Tactics – Sally Harvey

Baldwin of Forde, Bartholomew of Exeter and the Authorship of the
Liber de sectis hereticorum et orthodoxe fidei dogmata – Sabina Flanagan

Evidence of the Ordinary: Wives and Children of the Clergy in Normandy and England, 1050-1150 – Hazel Freestone

Anthropology, feud and
De obsessione Dunelmi – Tom Lambert

New Archaeologies of the Norman Conquest – Aleks Mc Clain

New Archaeologies of the Norman Conquest – Naomi Sykes

An Angevin Imperial Context for the Amboise-Anjou Historical Narratives Program – Nicholas L. Paul

The Noble Leper: Responses to Leprosy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries – Charlotte Pickard

Royal Taxation in Eleventh-century England and Ninth-century West Francia: Liability, Assessment and Written Record – David Pratt

Early Royal Rights in the Liberty of St Edmund – Richard Purkiss

Castle Construction, Conquest and Compensation – David Roffe

Four Scenes from the Chanson de Roland on the Façade of the Cathedral of Barletta (southern Italy) – Lucia Sinisi

‘The Jews are our Donkeys’: Anti-Jewish Polemic in Twelfth-Century French Vernacular Exegesis – Linda Stone

About the author

Dr David Pratt is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Downing College, Cambridge. His principal research interest is in the political thought and court culture of the early Middle Ages, especially in Anglo-Saxon England and the Carolingian world. His first book, The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great (2007), is a comprehensive study of political thought at King Alfred’s court.