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Book SynopsisA series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY This volume contains the usual wide range of topics, and offers some unusual and provocative perspectives, including an examination of what the evidence of zooarchaeology can reveal about the Conquest. The other subjects discussedare the battle of Alençon; the impact of rebellion on Little Domesday; Lawrence of Durham; Thomas Becket; Peter of Blois; Anglo-French peace conferences; episcopal elections and the loss of Normandy; Norman identity in southern Italian chronicles; and the Normans on crusade. Contributors: RICHARD BARTON, NAOMI SYKES, LUCY MARTEN, MIA MÜNSTER-SWENDSEN, JOHN D. COTTS, J.E.M. BENHAM, JÖRG PELTZER, JULIE BARRAU, EMILY ALBU, EWAN JOHNSON, G. A. LOUD, HANNA VOLLRATH.
Trade ReviewAnglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. [...]As usual, every Anglo-Normanist will find something of interest in this volume. * MEDIUM AEVUM *
Table of ContentsProbing the Passions of a Norman on Crusade: the Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum - Emily Albu Gilbert Foliot et l'Ecriture, un exégète en politique - Julie Barrau Writing Warfare, Lordship and History: the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum's Account of the Battle of Alençon - Richard E Barton Anglo-French Peace Conferences in the Twelfth Century - Jenny Benham Peter of Blois and the Problem of the `Court' in the Late Twelfth Century - John Cotts Normandy and Norman Identity in Southern Italian Chronicles - Ewan Johnson Monastic Chronicles in the Twelth-Century Abruzzi - Graham A Loud The Impact of the Rebellion on Little Domesday - Lucy Marten Setting Things Straight: Law, Justice and Ethics in the Orationes of Lawrence of Durham - Mia Münster-Swendsen The Angevin Kings and Canon Law: Episcopal Elections and the Loss of Normandy - Jörg Peltzer Zooarchaeology of the Norman Conquest - Naomi Sykes Was Thomas Becket Chaste? Understanding Episodes in the Becket Lives - Hanna Vollrath
