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almahu_9947413562002882
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1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781782040514 (ebook)
Content:
Over the last fifty years Ann Williams has transformed our understanding of Anglo-Saxon and Norman society in her studies of personalities and elites. In this collection, leading scholars in the field revisit themes that have been central to her work, and open up new insights into the workings of the multi-cultural communities of the realm of England in the early Middle Ages. There are detailed discussions of local and regional elites and the interplay between them that fashioned the distinctive institutions of local government in the pre-Conquest period; radical new readings of key events such as the crisis of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry as the beginnings of the 'Historia Anglorum'; studies of the impact of the Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations of the social, political, and administrative cultures in post-Conquest England and Normandy. The individual essays are united overall by the articulation of the local, regional, and national identities that that shaped the societies of the period. Contributors: S.D. Church, William Aird, Lucy Marten, Hirokazu Tsurushima, Valentine Fallan, Judith Everard, Vanessa King, Pamela Taylor, Charles Insley, Simon Keynes, Sally Harvey, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, David Bates, Emma Mason, David Roffe, Mark Hagger.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Ann Williams: A Personal Appreciation -- Life Writing and the Anglo-Saxons -- Meet the Swarts: Tracing a Thegnly Family in Late Anglo-Saxon England -- The Moneyers of Kent in the Long Eleventh Century -- Master Wace: a cross-Channel Prosopographer for the Twelfth Century? -- Charter Attestations by Canon Wace -- From Minster to Manor: the Early History of Bredon -- Eadulfingtun, Edmonton and their Contexts -- The Family of Wulfric Spott: an Anglo-Saxon Mercian Marcher Dynasty? -- The Burial of King Æthelred the Unready at St Paul's -- Eustace II of Boulogne, the Crises of 1051-2 and the English Coinage -- Through the Eye of the Needle: Stigand, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Beginnings of the Historia Anglorum -- Robert of Torigni and the Historia Anglorum -- Invoking Earl Waltheof -- Hidden Lives: English Lords in post-Conquest Lincolnshire and Beyond -- Lordship and Lunching: Interpretations of Eating and Food in the Anglo-Norman World, 1050-1200, with Reference to the Bayeux Tapestry -- The Exchequer Cloth, c. 1176-1832: the Calculator, the Game of Chess, and the Process of Photozincography -- Ann Williams: a Bibliography 1969-2011.
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English
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