Laura L. Gathagan & William North 
The Haskins Society Journal 30 
2018. Studies in Medieval History

New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.


This volume of the
Haskins Society Journal demonstrates the Society’s continued interest in a broad range of geographical contexts and methodological approaches to medieval history. Chapters include a much-needed reassessment of Ælfthryth and her place in the society and governance of tenth-century England, as well as a comprehensive survey of the conceptualization of excommunication in post-Carolingian Europe to c.1200. Further essays explore aspects of the Norman world of southern Italy, including the dynamics of political coalitions and kinship networks, ethnic identity, and material culture. The
Journal continues to highlight close analyses of key primary sources, with a study of Angevin kingship in the writings of Hugh of Lincoln and Adam of Eynsham, and an examination of Ralph of Niger’s Old Testament exegesis and criticism of crusading in the late twelfth century. A ground-breaking newstudy assesses the utility of colonialism as a valid model for understanding the extraction of sacred resources and relics from the crusader lands. The volume closes with a crucial reconsideration of the agency and power of medieval French peasants as attested in medieval cartularies, opening new approaches for further research into this critical and complex social group.


Contributors: Mary Elizabeth Blanchard, Constance B. Bouchard, John Cotts, Sarah Hamilton, Ryan Kemp, Markus Krumm, Francesca Petrizzo, William J. Purkis, Robin S. Reich

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Beyond Corfe: Ælfthryth’s Roles as Queen, Villain, and Former Sister-in-law – Mary Elizabeth Blanchard

Medieval Curses and Their Users – Sarah Hamilton

‘Although He Was His Nephew’: A Study of Younger Hautevilles Either Side of the Sea – Francesca Petrizzo

Nearly Gold and Nearly Perfect? Copper, Meaning, and Materiality in Norman Sicily – Robin Reich

Bound by Loyalty: Conflict, Communication and Group Solidarity in Early Twelfth-Century Southern Italy – Markus Krumm

Hugh of Lincoln and Adam of Eynsham: Angevin Kingship reconsidered – Ryan Kemp

Earthly Kings, Heavenly Jerusalem: Ralph Niger’s Political Exegesis and the Third Crusade – John Cotts

‘Holy Christendom’s New Colony’: The Extraction of Sacred Matter and the Colonial Status of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem – William Purkis

Medieval French Peasants: The New Frontier? – Constance Bouchard

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MARY ELIZABETH BLANCHARD is an early medieval historian at Ave Maria University specializing in tenth- and eleventh-century England with specific focus on prosopography and activities of the secular and ecclesiastical elites.