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One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM The articles brought together here demonstrate the exciting vitality of this field. The volume begins with a keynote chapter on the failure of marriages among Christians and Muslims in crusader diplomacy. Other chapters consider the ceremony of knighting and the coronation ritual of Matilda of Flanders. There are also investigations of hunting landscapes in Cheshire, and Lancashire before Lancashire in the context of the Irish Sea World, while lordship is examined in two contexts, in post-Conquest England and early thirteenth-century Le Mans and Chartres. The sources for our knowledge of the period, as always, receive attention, whether drawn from documentary evidence or material culture, with essays on universal chronicle-writing and the construction of the Galfridian past in the Continuatio Ursicampina; the coinage of Harold II; and the patronage of the Bayeux Tapestry by Odo of Bayeux.

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S. D. CHURCH is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln and Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. GARETH WILLIAMS has been a regional director of Sothebys and a curator for the National Trust at Nostell Park. He is now curator at Weston Park, one of the major country houses in Staffordshire, and head of learning at the education centre there. HANNAH BOSTON is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Humanities and Heritage, University of Lincoln, UK. GABRIELE PASSABÌ is a member of the Società Italiana per la Storia Medievale (SISMED). He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held research fellowships at universities and research centres across Europe and North America. LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts. CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.

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