Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume presents ten papers which were delivered at the 17th Annual Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, held at Cornell University in 1998, as well as sessions at Leeds and Kalamazoo. Contents: The Cistercian Mystery: how was the Order formed and by whom? (Constance H Berman); The trappings of power: the coronation of Mathilda of Flanders (Laura L Gathagan); The forgotton family in 12th-century England (David Crouch, Claire de Trafford); Owain ap Cadwgan: a rebel revisited (K L Maund); The memory of Brian fitz Count (Edmund King); Robert de Gant (c.1085-c.1158) (Richard Mylius Sherman); Miracle stories and the violence of King Stephen's reign (Hugh M Thomas); Reading miracles at Sempringham (Marylou Ruud); The critique of the secular clergy in Peter of Blois and Nigellus de Longchamps (John D Cotts); Ricardus Dux Aquitanorum et Comes Andegavorum (Ralph V Turner) .
Synopsis
The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign, miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth century, and contemporary views of secular clergy.
Contributors: CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD, K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.
Synopsis
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The latest volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign, miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth century, and contemporary views of secular clergy.
Contributors: CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD, K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.