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Book SynopsisLatest volume in leading forum for research on the Anglo-Norman world.This most recent volume of papers contains the usual wide range of papers and topics. The Memorial lecture concerns St Anselm, a personality particularly dear to R. Allen Brown. There is a particular emphasis on the writing of history, with papers on regional identity in early Normandy, Henry of Huntingdon, the Anglo-Norman
Estoire and the definition of racial identity in post-Conquest England; other topics include language in a colonial society, Anglo-Norman aristocracy (with studies ofindividual families), and the history of the church. Norman Southern Italy is represented by a study of the family structure in the principality of Salerno. Contributors: D.E.. LUSCOMBE, EMMA COWNIE, R. BEARMAN, P. DAMIAN-GRINT, JOANNA DRELL, DIANA GREENWAY, VANESSA KING, CASSANDRA POTTS, IAN SHORT, KATHLEEN THOMPSON, H. TSURUSHIMA
Table of ContentsR.Allen Brown Memorial Lecture: Bec, Christ Church and the correspondence of St Anselm - David Luscombe Baldwin de Redvers: some aspects of a Baronial career in the reign of King Stephen - R Bearman The Normans as patrons of English religious houses, 1066-1135 - Truth, trust and evidence in the Anglo-Norman Estoire - Peter Damian-Grint Family structure in the Principality of Salerno during the Norman period, 1077-1154 - Joanna Drell Authority, convention and observation in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum - D Greenway Ealdred, Archbishop of York: the Worcester years - Vanessa King Atque unum ex diversis gentibus populum effecit: historical tradition and the Norman identity - Cassandra Potts Hannahs Tam Angli quam Franci: Self-definition in Anglo-Norman England - Ian Short The lords of Laigle: ambition and insecurity on the borders of Normandy - Kathleen Thompson Domesday interpreters - Hiro Tsurushima
