Synopses & Reviews
A particular area of interest in this volume is the landscape and economy of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, with papers on castles, deer parks, marshlands, fisheries, and taxation. Two complementary papers discuss neglected aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry: gesture, and the representation of identity and status. Other papers survey the deaths of kings, the role of the Norman vicomte/, the estates of the king's wife in Anglo-Saxon England, and lay piety. John Gillingham's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture considers right conduct in battle. CHRIS LEWIS is Reader in History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and VCH Editor for Sussex. Contributors: JOHN GILLINGHAM, STEPHEN CHURCH, MARK GARDINER, ALBAN GAUTIER, MARK HAGGER, RYAN LAVELLE, MICHAEL LEWIS, ANDREW LOWERRE, GALE OWEN-CROCKER, HUGH THOMAS, HIROKAZU TSURUSHIMA, ANDREW WAREHAM AND XIANG DONG WEI.
Synopsis
The latest volume in the series ranges widely in subject matter while keeping a focus on the half century either side of 1066. Economic and social history is represented by contributions on marshland, deer parks, sea fishing, and taxation. Others examine ecclesiastical history, in articles on the Anglo-Saxon abbeys and the Norman Conquest, and on lay piety in England after 1066. A broad conception of 'government' appears in papers dealing with the estates of the king's wife in pre-Conquest Wessex, the role of the vicomte in post-Conquest Normandy, and the location of castles in early Norman England. There are two new approaches to interpreting the Bayeux Tapestry, looking at identity and status, and at gesture; and two papers deal with aftermaths: what happened on the death of kings, and what happened immediately after the battle of Hastings. CHRIS LEWIS is VCH Editor for Sussex at the Institute for Historical Research, University of London. Contributors: SIMON KEYNES, JOHN GILLINGHAM, STEPHEN CHURCH, HOWARD CLARKE, MARK GARDINER, ALBAN GAUTIER, MARK HAGGER, RYAN LAVELLE, MICHAEL LEWIS, ANDREW LOWERRE, GALE OWEN-CROCKER, HUGH THOMAS, HIROKAZU TSURUSHIMA, ANDREW WAREHAM AND XIANG DONG WEI.
Synopsis
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY
A particular area of interest in this volume is the landscape and economy of late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, with papers on castles, deer parks, marshlands, fisheries, and taxation. Two complementary papers discuss neglected aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry: gesture, and the representation of identity and status. Other papers survey the deaths of kings, the role of the Norman vicomte, the estates of the king's wife in Anglo-Saxon England, and lay piety. John Gillingham's Allen Brown Memorial Lecture considers right conduct in battle.
C.P. Lewis is Reader in History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Contributors: JOHNGILLINGHAM, STEPHEN CHURCH, MARK GARDINER, ALBAN GAUTIER, MARK HAGGER, RYAN LAVELLE, MICHAEL LEWIS, ANDREW LOWERRE, GALE OWEN-CROCKER, HUGH THOMAS, HIROKAZU TSURUSHIMA, ANDREW WAREHAM, XIANG DONG WEI.