Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2022 - Couverture rigide

 
9781783277513: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2022

Synopsis

Summarising cutting-edge scholarship on the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries, this volume includes a keynote chapter from Alheydis Plassmann, analysing two contemporary accounts of the power struggle between two grandchildren of William the Conqueror during the 1140s. Other chapters examine locations of exile in The Gesta Herewardi and Fouke le Fitz Waryn. iconography in German and English coins, the sheriffs of Edward the Confessor, Empress Matilda's "German" years, the role of the abbot in directing the work of monk-historians, and how tenth-century Ottonian women used communication to further their political goals.

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À propos des auteurs

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

Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

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