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Book SynopsisWide-ranging and current research into the Anglo-Norman and Angevin worlds. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal brings together a rich and interdisciplinary collection of articles. Topics range from the politics and military organization of northern worlds of the Anglo-Normans and Angevins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, to the economic activity of women in Catalonia and political unrest in thirteenth-century Tripoli. Martin Millett's chapter on the significance of rural life in Roman Britain for the early Middle Ages continues the Journal's commitment to archaeological approaches to medieval history, while contributions on Ælfric's complex use of sources in his homilies, Byrhtferth of Ramsey's reinterpretation of the Alfredian past, and the little known History of Alfred of Beverly engage with crucial questions of sources and historiographical production within Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England. Pieces on the political meaning of the EmpressHelena and Constantine I for Angevin political ambitions and the role of relics such as the Holy Lance in strategies of political legitimation in Anglo-Saxon England and Ottonian Germany in the tenth century complete the volume. Contributors: David Bachrach, Mark Blincoe, Katherine Cross, Sarah Ifft Decker, Joyce Hill, Katherine Hodges-Kluck, Jesse Izzo, Martin Millett, John Patrick Slevin, Oliver Stoutner, Laura Wangerin.
Table of ContentsRural Settlement in Roman Britain and Its Significance for the Early Medieval Period - Martin Millett Holy Relics, Authority, and Legitimacy in Ottonian Germany and Anglo-Saxon England - Laura Wangerin Beyond the Obvious: Ælfric and the Authority of Bede - Joyce Hill Byrhtferth's Historia regum and the Transformation of the Alfredian Past - Katherine Cross Geoffrey le Bel of Anjou and Political Inheritance in the Anglo-Norman Realm - Mark E. Blincoe Observations on the Twelfth-century Historia of Alfred of Beverley - John Patrick Slevin Helena, Constantine, and the Angevin Desire for Jerusalem - Katherine L. Hodges-Kluck The Revolts of the Embriaco and the Fall of the County of Tripoli - Jesse Izzo Jewish Women, Christian Women, and Credit in Thirteenth-Century Catalonia - Sarah Ifft Decker Military Entrepreneurs in the Armies of Edward I (1272-1307) of England - David S. Bachrach
