Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2021 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783277130 ISBN 13 : 9781783277131

Editeur : The Boydell Press, 2022

Synopsis

The essays collected here demonstrate the rich vitality of scholarship in this area. This volume has a particular focus on the interrelations between the various parts of north-western Europe. After the opening piece on Lotharingia, there are detailed studies of the relationship between Ponthieu and its Norman neighbours, and between the Norman and Angevin duke-kings and the other French nobility, followed by an investigation of the world of demons and possession in Norman Italy, with additional observations on the subject in twelfth-century England. Meanwhile, the York massacre of the Jews in 1190 is set in a wider context, showing the extent to which crusader enthusiasm led to the pogroms that so marred Anglo-Jewish relations, not just in York but elsewhere in England; and there is an exploration of poverty in London, also during the 1190s, viewed through the prism of the life and execution of William fitz Osbert. Another chapter demonstrates the power of comparative history to illuminate the norms of proprietary queenship, so often overlooked by historians of both kingship and queenship. And two essays focusing on landscape bring the physical into close association with the historical: on the equine landscape of eleventh and twelfth-century England, adding substantially to our understanding of the place of the horse in late Anglo-Saxon and early Anglo-Norman societies, and on the Brut narratives of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Laȝamon, arguing that they use realistic landscapes in their depiction of the action embedded in their tales, so demonstrating the authors' grasp of the practical realities of contemporary warfare and the role played by landscapes in it.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

S.D. Church is Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln.

MICHAEL BINTLEY is Associate Professor in Medieval English Literature at the University of Southampton. He is author of Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval England (2015), and Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England: Texts, Landscapes, and Material Culture (2020), and co-author of Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages (2023).

LEONIE V. HICKS is Reader in Medieval Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Boydell Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783277130
• ISBN 13: 9781783277131
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 186
• Éditeur: Church Professor Stephen D
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