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The most recent research into the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds. Embracing disciplinary approaches ranging from the archaeological to the historical, the sociological to the literary, this collection offers new insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and thecontinent between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Topics range from Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic andhagiographical texts, to Robert Curthose's interaction with the Norman episcopate and the revival of Roman legal studies, to the dynamics of aristocratic friendship in the Anglo-Norman realm, and much more. The volume also includes two methodologically rich studies of vital aspects of the historical landscape of medieval England: rivers and forests. William North teaches in the Department of History, Carleton College. Contributors: Richard Allen, Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Ruth Harwood Cline, Thomas Cramer, Mark Gardiner, C. Stephen Jaeger, David A.E. Pelteret, Sally Shockro, Rebecca Slitt, Timothy Smit
The most recent research into the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds. Embracing disciplinary approaches ranging from the archaeological to the historical, the sociological to the literary, this collection offers new insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and thecontinent between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Topics range from Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic andhagiographical texts, to Robert Curthose's interaction with the Norman episcopate and the revival of Roman legal studies, to the dynamics of aristocratic friendship in the Anglo-Norman realm, and much more. The volume also includes two methodologically rich studies of vital aspects of the historical landscape of medieval England: rivers and forests. William North teaches in the Department of History, Carleton College. Contributors: Richard Allen, Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Ruth Harwood Cline, Thomas Cramer, Mark Gardiner, C. Stephen Jaeger, David A.E. Pelteret, Sally Shockro, Rebecca Slitt, Timothy Smit
Bede and the Rewriting of Sanctity - Sally Shockro
The Role of Rivers and Coastlines in Shaping Early English History
- David A. E. Pelteret
Containing Virginity: Sex and Society in Early Medieval England -
Thomas Cramer
Pagans and Infidels, Saracens and Sicilians: Identifying Muslims in
the Eleventh-Century Chronicles of Norman Italy - Timothy Smit
Robert Curthose and the Norman Episcopate - Richard Allen
The Revival of Roman Law: the Exceptiones Petri - Uta-Renate
Blumenthal
Mutatis Mutandis: Literary Borrowing from Jerome's Letter to
Eustochium and Others in the Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron by
Geoffrey Grossus - Ruth Harwood Cline
Acting Out Friendship: Signs and Gestures of Aristocratic Male
Friendship in the Twelfth Century - Rebecca L. Slitt
The Quantification of Assarted Land in Mid- and Late
Twelfth-Century England - Mark Gardiner
Origins of Courtliness after 25 Years - C. Stephen Jaeger
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