From Alfred the Great to StephenA&C Black, 1991 M01 1 - 318 pages Twenty-two collected essays on late Anglo-Saxon and Norman history. |
Contents
Bede after Bede | 1 |
East Anglia and the Danelaw | 15 |
Propaganda and Truth | 33 |
Alfred and Guthrums Frontier | 47 |
The Norman Conquest | 55 |
The Warhorses of the Normans | 63 |
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio | 79 |
William of Poitiers and his History of William the Conqueror | 101 |
Geoffrey de Mandeville Reconsidered | 203 |
King Stephen and the Earl of Chester Revised | 213 |
An Unknown Coventry Charter | 221 |
The College of St MartinleGrand and the Anarchy 113554 | 237 |
The Treaty between William Earl of Gloucester and Roger Earl of Hereford | 255 |
An Oxford Charter of 1191 and the Beginnings of Municipal Freedom | 265 |
The Ford the River and the City | 281 |
The Content of History | 293 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbey Abbot Æthelweard Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Archbishop army Barlow barons Bath battle Bayeux Bede Bede's benefices bishop Boulogne canons Carmen Cartulary castle cathedral chancellor charter church Count court Coventry Danes Danish Domesday Book Duke Durham earl of Chester earl of Gloucester Earl Ranulf East Anglia Ecclesiastical empress England English estates Eustace evidence fact fitz Geoffrey de Mandeville Gesta Stephani Gilbert given grant Henry of Blois historians horses J. H. Round Jumièges King Alfred King Stephen king's land London manuscript Matilda Medieval monks Normandy Northumbria Orderic Vitalis Oseney Oxford peasants named poem R. H. C. Davis reference Regum revolt Richard Robert Marmion Roger Rolls Series royal Scandinavian shire St Martin-le-Grand Stenton Stephen's reign story suggest Thames town treaty trésor or moveable twelfth century vols West Saxon William of Malmesbury William of Poitiers William the Conqueror Winchester witnesses Worcester WP's writ written