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Book SynopsisA series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a variety of disciplines. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra's treatment of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England, the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as theologian. David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East Anglia. Contributors: Martin Allen, Henry Bainton, Nicholas Brooks, Jonathan Grove, Toivo Holopainen, Chris Lewis, Tom Licence, Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel, Christopher Norton and Stuart Harrison, Rebecca Slitt, Stephen D. White, Ann Williams.
Table of ContentsEditor's Preface - Mints and Money in Norman England - Martin Allen Literate Sociability and Historical Writing in Later Twelfth-Century England - Henry Bainton The Archbishopric of Canterbury and the so-called Introduction of Knight-Service into England - Nicholas Brooks Lastingham and the Architecture of the Benedictine Revival in Northumbria - Stuart Harrison and Christopher Norton 'Lanfranc of Bec' and Berengar of Tours - Toivo Holopainen The Invention of the Manor in Norman England - C P Lewis Herbert Losinga's Trip to Rome and the Bishopric of Bury St Edmunds - Tom Licence Le récit de Geoffroi Malaterra ou la légitimation de Roger, Grand Comte de Sicile - Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel The Two Deaths of William Longsword: Wace, William of Malmesbury, and the Norman Past - Rebecca L. Slitt The Beasts who Talk on the Bayeux Embroidery: The Fables Revisited - S.D White The Piety of Earl Godwine - Ann Williams
