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OverviewThe Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the impact of the past on the Normans themselves. The Continuity of the Conquest corrects these oversights. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle explores the Carolingian aspects of Norman influence in England after the Norman Conquest, arguing that the Normans' literature of kingship envisioned government as a form of imperial rule modeled in many ways on the glories of Charlemagne and his reign. She argues that the aggregate of historical and literary ideals that developed about Charlemagne after his death influenced certain aspects of the Normans' approach to ruling, including a program of conversion through allurement, political domination through symbolic architecture and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the royal forest as an extension of the royal court. An engaging new approach to understanding the nature of Norman identity and the culture of writing and problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wendy Marie Hoofnagle (University of Northern Iowa)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780271074023ISBN 10: 0271074027 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 15 December 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: Introduction Continuity and Carolingian Kingship: The Case of the Early Normans An Obsession with the Continent : A Reconsideration of Insular Continuity CHAPTER TWO: Conversion Politics and the Ideology of Imperialism The Politics of Allurement: Conversion and Charlemagne's Civilizing Impulse Conversion Politics: Rituals of Submission and Unification The Pygmalion Effect: Dudo of St. Quentin and the Rituals of Empire Converting the British Barbarian: Sitting at High Table at the Anglo-Norman Court CHAPTER THREE: Making Their Mark: The Imperial Ideology of Topography Imperial Unification and Sacral Kingship: Henry of Huntingdon's Via regia Charlemagne's Imperial Memory and the Symbolic Landscape: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Castles CHAPTER FOUR: Taming the Wilderness: A New Look at the New Forest Keeping It in the Familia? Norman Forest Law and its Carolingian Ancestry In the Dreams of Snoring Monks: The King's Body in the New Forest Addicted to the Chase: Expressions of Royal Power in Marie de France's Forests CHAPTER FIVE: Epilogue NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEXReviewsIn The Continuity of the Conquest, Wendy Hoofnagle presents a wide-ranging and learned study that will be an important contribution to a variety of fields within medieval studies and beyond. --Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida In The Continuity of the Conquest, Wendy Hoofnagle presents a wide-ranging and learned study that will be an important contribution to a variety of fields within medieval studies and beyond. --Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida The Continuity of the Conquest further expands the horizons of an already expanding body of work on the medieval Charlemagne legend. That Frankish king and emperor loomed large in the imaginations of the Anglo-Normans, in ways both tacit and explicit. Wendy Hoofnagle forces us to reconceptualize what we think we know about Englishness, and indeed England itself, in the central Middle Ages. --Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech Landscape and architecture; mythmaking and historical writing; imperial expansion and the ideology of kingship: all of these themes are addressed in ways which will offer new perspectives and which are sure to be thought-provoking to scholars of the Anglo-Norman era. -Lindsay Diggelmann, Parergon In The Continuity of the Conquest, Wendy Hoofnagle presents a wide-ranging and learned study that will be an important contribution to a variety of fields within medieval studies and beyond. -Anne Latowsky, University of South Florida The Continuity of the Conquest further expands the horizons of an already expanding body of work on the medieval Charlemagne legend. That Frankish king and emperor loomed large in the imaginations of the Anglo-Normans, in ways both tacit and explicit. Wendy Hoofnagle forces us to reconceptualize what we think we know about Englishness, and indeed England itself, in the central Middle Ages. -Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech Author InformationWendy Marie Hoofnagle is Associate Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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