Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012: Vol 35

Bates, David (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1843838575 / ISBN 13: 9781843838579

Edité par Boydell Pr, 2013

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• Titre: Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012: Vol 35
• Éditeur: Boydell Pr
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1843838575
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781843838579
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Brand New
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Synopsis

The articles in this volume have a particular focus on aspects of the history of the duchy of Normandy. Their topics include arguments for a new approach to the history of early Normandy, Norman abbesses, and the proposition that Robert Curthose was effectively written out of the duchy's history. There are also two papers devoted to the Bayeux Tapestry: Sylvette Lemagnen's reflections on her job as the Curator of the Tapestry (a vital one for scholars of the period), and a challenging identification of its designer.
Other subjects cover Pseudo-Falcandus, Bohemond, landscape and belief, John Bilson and architectural studies, and villein manumissions and the theology of the Incarnation.

À propos des auteurs

Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Since her eldest son has taken over responsibility for the shop, she has been able to devote more time to her writing.

Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married, she moved to Innishannon where she ran a guesthouse at first, then the supermarket and post office. She and her husband, Gabriel Murphy, who sadly passed away in 2005, had four sons and one daughter. In 1984 she edited and published the first issue of Candlelight, a local magazine which has since appeared annually. In 1986 she published an illustrated collection of her own verse.

To School Through the Fields was published in May 1988. It was an immediate success, and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. It launched Alice on a series of signing sessions, talks and readings the length and breadth of Ireland. Her first radio interview, forty two minutes long on RTÉ Radio's Gay Byrne Show, was the most talked about radio programme of 1988, and her first television interview, of the same length, was the highlight of the year on RTÉ television's Late Late Show. Since then she has appeared on radio programmes such as Woman's Hour, Midweek and The Gloria Hunniford Show, and she has been the subject of major profiles in the Observer and the Mail on Sunday.

Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, large exploring her village of Inishannon, and the way of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller in Ireland, topping the paperback fiction lists for many weeks.

One of Ireland's most popular authors, her most recent book is And Life Lights Up.

Carl Watkins is Professor in British History at Cambridge University. He is a historian of medieval religious, cultural and political history, concentrating especially on the British Isles in the central and later middle ages, who has also written about death and the supernatural in English culture over a longer chronological span (extending over the middle ages and early modernity).

STEVEN J. BIDDLECOMBE edited the Latin text of Baldric's Historia (2014); having taught at a number of universities, most recently at Nottingham Trent; he is currently an independent scholar.