Stephen D. Church 
Anglo-Norman Studies XLV 
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2022

‘A series which is a model of its kind’: Edmund King


This year’s volume is made up of articles that were presented at the conference in Bonn, held under the auspices of the University. In this volume, Alheydis Plassmann, the Allen Brown Memorial lecturer, analyses how two contemporary commentators reported the events of their day, the contest between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror as they struggled for supremacy in England and Normandy during the 1140s. The Marjorie Chibnall Essay prize winner, Laura Bailey, examines the geographical spaces occupied by the exile in The Gesta Herewardi and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Andrea Stieldorf compares the seals and the coins of Germany/Lotharingia in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries with those made in England, exploring the ideas embedded in the iconography of the two connected visual sources. Domesday Book forms the focus of two important new studies, one by Rory Naismith looking at the moneyers to be found in Domesday, adding substantially to the information gained on this important group of artisans, and one by Chelsea Shields-Más on the sheriffs of Edward the Confessor, giving us new insights into the key officials in the royal administration. Elisabeth van Houts examines the life of Empress Matilda before she returned to her father’s court in 1125 throwing new light on Matilda’s ‘German’ years, while Laura Wangerin looks at how tenth-century Ottonian women used communication to further their political goals. Steven Vanderputten takes the challenge of thinking about religious change at the turn of the Millennium through the lens of the
Life of John, Abbot of Gorze Abbey, by John of Saint-Arnoul. Benjamin Pohl looks at the role of the abbot in prompting monk-historians to embark on their historiographical tasks through the work of one individual chronicler, Andreas of Marchiennes, responsible for writing, at his abbot’s behest, the
Chronicon Marchianense. And Megan Welton explores the implications of honorific titles through an examination of the title dux as it was attached to two tenth-century women rulers. The volume offers a wide range of insightful essays which add considerably to our understanding of the central middle ages.

Mục lục

William of Malmesbury, the
Gesta Stephani, and the Idea of Successful and Good Rule in the Twelfth Century (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)

Alheydis Plassmann

The Spaces of Exile in the
Gesta Herewardi and
Fouke le fitz Waryn (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize, 2022)

Laura Bailey

Empty Honorifics: Elites, Titles, and the Economy of Esteem in the Tenth Century (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture)

Megan Welton

The Sheriffs of Edward the Confessor

Chelsea Shields-Más

Seals, Coins, and the Exchange of Imagination and Images

Andrea Stieldorf

Matilda in the Empire, 1110-1125

Elisabeth van Houts

Communications and Power: Ottonian Women

Laura Wangerin

A Reluctant Historian and his Craft: The Scribal Work of Andreas of Marchiennes Reconsidered

Benjamin Pohl

Community Building as a Vector of Social and Religious Change in the
Life of John of Gorze (973/74-984)

Steven Vanderputten

The Moneyers and Domesday Book (The Christine Mahany Memorial Lecture)

Rory Naismith

Giới thiệu về tác giả

Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College.