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Essays exploring a wide range of topics, from castle-building and mortuary scroll compositions to the development of institutional queenship. This volume continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages. It likewise demonstrates its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents and manuscript evidence offer important, new insights into the period. The volume opens with a focused comparison of Widukind of Corvey's Res gestae Saxonicae and the Latin heroic epic Waltharius, exploring larger questions of the interplay of ""literature"" and ""history"" in tenth-century Germany. This is followed by a close examination of the changing nature of queenship in England during the tenth century, and a study of the vital, yet neglected, maritime dimensions of William fitzOsbern's castle-building and commercial interests in the southern Welsh March. Further essays examine mortuary rolls to explore women's literacy and the role of authority in its expression; the scope and dramatic impact of Henry of Blois' contribution to the monastic library at Glastonbury; the changing nature of written administration in Gloucester during the rule of Earl Amaury IV; skepticism about the Galfridian narrative of early Britain in Pseudo-William Godel's Libellus de Recordatione Temporum; and the roles and responsibilities fulfilled by women who lived in or ventured into medieval royal forests. The volume's final essay reflects on the ways in which Cold War policies and politics in the United States contributed in complex ways not only to the making of a medieval historian, but to the making of medieval historical studies in later twentieth-century.

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Author:   William North (Person)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Boydell & Brewer
ISBN:  

9781837654697

ISBN 10:   1837654697
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   07 July 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

1. The Death of Wichmann: Waltharius, Widukind, and the Negotiation of Imperial Loyalties in Tenth-Century Germany Chris Halsted 2. The Tenth Century as a Locus for Institutional Queenship in England Matthew Firth 3. Castles, Commerce, and Control: William fitzOsbrn and the Management of Maritime Space, 1067-71 Rebecca Tyson 4. Double-Sisters: Authority, Gender, and Mortuary Scroll Compositions in the Early Twelfth-Century Elspeth Currie 5. Books Pro Moribus Informandis: Henry of Blois' Contribution to the Glastonbury Library Benjamin Bertrand 6. The Disappearance of a Writing Office: Gloucester during the Rule of Earl Amaury IV (r. 1200-1213) Curtis Rager 7. Synchronicity, historicity, and the Galfridian past in Pseudo-William Godel's Libellus de Recordatione Temporum Gabriele Passabi 8. Foresters, Landholders, Trespassers, and Hunters: Women in the Medieval English Forest Louise Wilkinson 9. The Cold War Made Me Do It: Why I Became a Medieval Historian, and Why I Managed to Succeed Sharon Farm

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