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Book SynopsisCovers topics including Abbey, town and early charters of Battle; Anglo-Norman succession 1120-1125; Aethelings in Normandy; 11c Barons and their Officials; Coinage and currency under Henry I; Early earls of Norman England; Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain"; Ivo of Chartres; and, Landholding by Milites in Domesday.
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Table of Contents"Inter amicos" the abbey, town and early charters of Battle, Eleanor Searle; Ivo of Chartres and the Anglo-Norman cultural tradition, Lynn Barker; reminiscences Anglo-Scandinaves dans la Sculpture Normande (xie-xiie siecles), Maylis Bayle; currency and coinage under Henry I - a review, Mark Blackburn; landholding by Milites in Domesday Book - a revision, Donald Fleming; the context and purposes of Geoffrey of Monmouth's history of the Kings of Britain, John Gillingham; Robert of Mortain, Brian Golding; the description of Jerusalem by William of Malmesbury - a mirror of the Holy Land's presence in the Anglo-Norman mind, Aryeh Grabois; William I and the Breton contingent in the non-Norman conquest 1060-1087, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan; the Aethelings in Normandy, Simon Keynes; the early years of Norman England, Chris Lewis; the Anglo-Norman succession 1120-1125, Karl Leyser; Barons and their officials in the later 11th century, J.F.A. Mason; Robert of Belleme reconsidered, Kathleen Thompson.
