Anglo-Norman Studies XLV - Hardcover

 
9781783277513: Anglo-Norman Studies XLV

Synopsis

Summarising cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries, this volume includes a keynote chapter from Alheydis Plassmann, analysing two contemporary accounts of the power struggle between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror during the 1140s. Other chapters examine locations of exile in The Gesta Herewardi and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. iconography in German and English coins, the sheriffs of Edward the Confessor, Empress Matilda's "German" years, the role of the abbot in directing the work of monk-historians, and how tenth-century Ottonian women used communication to further their political goals.

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About the Authors

S. D. CHURCH is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln and Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia.

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

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