Anglo-Norman Studies XXI Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998 [Hardcover]

Anglo-Norman Studies, published annually and containing the papers presented at the Battle conference, is established as the single most important publication in the field, covering not only matters relating to pre- and post-Conquest England and France, but also the activities and influences of the Normans on the wider European, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern stage; it celebrates its twenty-first anniversary with this volume. This year there is an emphasis on the examination of sources: translation-narratives, the Life of Hereward, the Book of Llandaf, a Mont Saint Michel cartulary, Benoit de Sainte-Maure and Roger of Howden. Secular topics include Anglo-Flemish relations and the origins of an important family; ecclesiastical matters considered are the Breton church in the late eleventh century, William Rufus's monastic policy, the patrons of the great abbey of Bec, and, for the first time in this series, the life of St Thomas of Canterbury.No single recent enterprise has done more to enlarge and deepen our understanding of one of the most critical periods in English history. ANTIQUARIES JOURNALSaxons, Normans and their Buildings - En nul leu truis escrit: Research and Invention in Benoit de Ste Maure's Chronique des ducs de Normandie - Peter Damian-GrintThe Book of Llandaf: a Twelfth Century Perspective - John R. DaviesPope Gregory VII, the Archbishopric of Dol and the Normans - Paula de FougerollesTranslation-Narratives in Post-Conquest Hagiography and English Resistance to the Norman Conquest - Paul A. HaywardBibliotheque municipale d'Avranches, 210; Cartulary of Mont Saint Michel - K. S. B Keats-RohanWilliam Rufus and the Benedictine Order - Emma MasonThe Political Relations between England and Flanders (1066-1128) - Renee NipThe Anglo-Flemish Treaty of 1101 - Elisabeth M C van HoutsThe Benefactors of Bec and the Politics of Priories - Julie PotterThomas Becket's Conversion - Michael StauntonThe Gesta Herwardi, the English and their Conquerors - Hugh M ThomaslC5