Anglo-Norman Studies 37 [Hardcover]

The contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of Duke Richard II and Abbot John of F?camp in early Normandy; political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's motivation for his Historia Regum Britonum; twelfth-century legal scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal acta from the south-western Norman dioceses.Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine WeikertThe latest research on aspects of the Anglo-Norman world.Editor's Preface - Elisabeth M C van HoutsHenry of Winchester: the Bishop, the City and the Wider World - Edmund KingEpiscopal acta in Normandy, 911-1204: the charters of the bishops of Avranches, Coutances and S?es - Richard AllenRichard II de Normandie: figure princire et transferts culturels (fin dixime- d?but onzime sicle) - Pierre BauduinRoyal Inauguration and the Liturgical Calendar in England, France and the Empire c. 1050-c. 1250 - Johanna DaleHistory, Prophecy and the Arthur of the Normans: the question of audience and motivation behind Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae - Jennifer FarrellCanterbury Cathedral Priory's Bath House and Fish Pond - Peter FergussonTam Anglis quam Danis: 'Old Norse' Terminology in the Constitutiones de foresta - Sara HarrisQuadripartitus, Leges Henrici Primi and the Scholarship of English Law in the Early Twelfth Century - Nicholas KarnJohn of F?camp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy - Lauren ManciaTrade and TralÃ*