"The English and their Legacy, 900-1200: Essays in Honour of Ann Williams" ed. by David Roffe
Boydell Press | 2012 | ISBN: 1843837943 9781843837947 | 308 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In this collection, leading scholars in the field revisit themes that have been central to her work, and open up new insights into the workings of the multi-cultural communities of the realm of England in the early Middle Ages. The individual essays are united overall by the articulation of the local, regional, and national identities that that shaped the societies of the period.
There are detailed discussions of local and regional elites and the interplay between them that fashioned the distinctive institutions of local government in the pre-Conquest period; radical new readings of key events such as the crisis of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry as the beginnings of the Historia Anglorum; studies of the impact of the Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations of the social, political, and administrative cultures in post-Conquest England and Normandy.
Contents Figures and Tables
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Ann Williams: a Personal Appreciation
Life-writing and the Anglo-Saxons
Meet the Swarts: Tracing a Thegnly Family in Late Anglo-Saxon England
The Moneyers of Kent in the Long Eleventh Century
Master Wace: a cross-Channel Prosopographer for the Twelfth Century?
From Minster to Manor: the Early History of Bredon
Eadulfingtun, Edmonton, and their Contexts
The Family of Wulfric Spott: an Anglo-Saxon Mercian Marcher Dynasty?
The Burial of King Æthelred the Unready at St Paul’s
Eustace II of Boulogne, the Crises of 1051–2 and the English Coinage
Through the Eye of the Needle: Stigand, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Beginnings of the Historia Anglorum
Robert of Torigni and the Historia Anglorum
Hidden Lives: English Lords in post-Conquest Lincolnshire and Beyond 205
Lordship and Lunching: Interpretations of Eating and Food in the Anglo-Norman World, 1050–1200, with Reference to the Bayeux Tapestry
The Exchequer Cloth, c. 1176–1832: the Calculator, the Game of Chess and the Process of Photozincography
Ann Williams: a Bibliography 1969–2011
Index
Tabula Gratuloria
with TOC BookMarkLinks
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