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""A series which is a model of its kind"": Edmund King Considers the clerical friends of Ermengarde of Brittany, showing how these men enabled Ermengarde to fulfil both her duty and her desire to live an intensely pious life. Explores the ways in which grief was represented in the Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal. Two thirteenth-century Evesham forgeries demonstrate that early thirteenth-century people, even so-called experts at the papal chancery, seem to have been ignorant of the physical form which early papal bulls took. Explores the world of the scribes who composed Exon Domesday, demonstrating their working methods as well as giving us further insights into the composition of Great Domesday, completed by 1088. Looks at the involvement of Bernard, abbot of Le Mont Saint-Michel, 1131-49, in the development of the abbey in peril of the sea. Examines how the introduction of musical notation into Normandy around the millennium made it possible for people to understand melodies without aid from a master. Offers insights into the career of Ranulf Flambard, the most ""infamous tax collector"" of the late eleventh century in England. Investigates the annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 1062 to 1066, showing that they were written largely in retrospect after the events of 1066 had played out. Looks at the case for the evidence relating to the foundation of Kirkstead Abbey, Lincolnshire. Finally, presents evidence for spying and espionage in the Anglo-Norman World.

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Author:   Professor Stephen D. Church ,  Bill Aird ,  Jenny Benham ,  Thomas N Bisson (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781837651047

ISBN 10:   1837651043
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   20 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Editor's Preface List of Abbreviations 'Most Beloved Disciple:' Countess Ermengarde of Brittany and her Clerical Friends (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture) Amy Livingstone Grief in the Histoire De Guillaume Le Maréchal (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize, 2023) Lili Scott Lintott The Donations of Pope Constantine (JE †2147, †2149): Imitation, Forgery and the Death of Papyrus, '709'-1205 (The Christine Mahany Memorial Lecture, 2023) Benjamin Savill The Significance of Exon Domesday (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture, 2023) C. P. Lewis Bernard of Le Bec, Abbot of Le Mont Saint-Michel (1131-1149): The Evidence Thomas N. Bisson Excursus on The Culture of Learning at Mont Saint-Michel c. 1100-1149 K. S. B. Keats-Rohan The Norman a-p System of Letter Notation from Abbot William of Volpiano/Dijon to Orderic Vitalis Alma Santosuosso Charismatic Bureaucracy? Ranulf Flambard and The Governance of Norman England. William M. Aird The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, C, D and E, Annals 1062-1066 Tom Licence The Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire: Rethinking a Twelfth-Century Foundation and its Thirteenth-Century Cartulary Kathryn Dutton 'A Little Bird Told Me ... .' Spies and Espionage in The Norman World Jenny Benham

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S.D. Church is Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. Dr K S B Keats-Rohan is Director of the Linacre Unit for Prosopographical Research and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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