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Book SynopsisNew insights into interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. The articles in this volume of the Haskins Society Journal take the reader from early England to the thirteenth century, from Europe to the Holy Land. Chapters explore issues of Anglo-Saxon social status and settlement andpeasant agency in the France of King Louis IX; while, through a careful re-examination of documentary and narrative evidence, further articles offer new insights into succession crises in England and the Principality of Antioch, with special attention to the role of women in the assumption of political power and its narration. The record and moral horizons of both First and Fourth Crusaders also receive close attention; and finally, a survey of the construction of the Norman past in the French Chronique de Normandie rounds out the collection. CONTRIBUTORS: Mark E. Blincoe, Andrew D. Buck, Wim de Clercq, Theodore Evergates, Alex Hurlow, William Chester Jordan, Alexandra Locking, Alheydis Plassman, Stuart Pracy, Katherine Allen Smith, Veerle van Eetvelde, Steven Vanderputten, Gerben Verbrugghe
Table of ContentsEditors' Note List of Illustrations Abbreviations Social Mobility and Manumissions in Early Medieval England - Stuart Pracy Flemish Settlements Beyond Flanders: A Review and New Perspectives on Transregional Medieval Settlement Landscapes in Britain - Gerben Verbrugghe Flemish Settlements Beyond Flanders: A Review and New Perspectives on Transregional Medieval Settlement Landscapes in Britain - Steven Vanderputten Flemish Settlements Beyond Flanders: A Review and New Perspectives on Transregional Medieval Settlement Landscapes in Britain - Veerle Van Eetvelde Flemish Settlements Beyond Flanders: A Review and New Perspectives on Transregional Medieval Settlement Landscapes in Britain - Wim De Clercq The Road to Babylon: The First Crusade as Moral Performance - Katherine Allen Smith 'Normans' on the First Crusade: Actions and Agendas of Two Crusaders: Robert Curthose and Bohemond of Taranto - Alheydis Plassmann The War Memoirs of Geoffroy of Villehardouin - Theodore Evergates Women in the Principality of Antioch: Power, Status and Social Agency - Andrew D. Buck The Story of the Veil: Matilda of Scotland, Controversy, and Imagination in Anglo-Norman Historiography - Alexandra Locking Political Identity and the Succession of Henry II - Mark E. Blincoe Competing Visions of the Past: Norman Identities in the Thirteenth-Century Chronique de Normandie - Alexander Hurlow Rustics Petitioning to Parlement in the Thirteenth Century: A Case Study - William Chester Jordan
