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Tabularia, Apr 28, 2011

Sources écrites des mondes normands médiévaux Vivre des deux côtés de la Manche (X e-XIII e siècl... more Sources écrites des mondes normands médiévaux Vivre des deux côtés de la Manche (X e-XIII e siècle) | 2011 Cross-Channel communication and the end of the 'Anglo-Norman realm': Robert fitzWalter and the Valognes inheritance

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages, 2015

This pdf of your paper in Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages belongs to the publishers Ox... more This pdf of your paper in Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages belongs to the publishers Oxbow Books and it is their copyright. As author you are licenced to make up to 50 offprints from it, but beyond that you may not publish it on the World Wide Web until three years from publication (January 2018), unless the site is a limited access intranet (password protected). If you have queries about this please contact the editorial department at Oxbow Books

mutation de l'an mil at -elle eu lieu? (Paris, 1997). Typical is the statement (p. 51) that 'La «... more mutation de l'an mil at -elle eu lieu? (Paris, 1997). Typical is the statement (p. 51) that 'La «notice» n'est pas informe, mais plutôt informative'.

Frontiers in Question, 1999

In a well-known article Karl Ferdinand Werner described eleventh-century Western Europe as ‘a wor... more In a well-known article Karl Ferdinand Werner described eleventh-century Western Europe as ‘a world of princes’.1 By extension it was a world of principalities, for most of these princes claimed to rule over large tracts of territory; and as they sought to assert their hegemony over their lands, rulers naturally tried to define and control their borders. In general, provincial borders in medieval France have not received the attention they deserve from historians, for they dwindled in importance in the later Middle Ages with the growth of the French state. Yet these borders and borderlands are worth studying both for their own sake and for their place in the evolution of political frontiers in general. This article will consider one of the most powerful French principalities in the central Middle Ages, the duchy of Normandy.2

French History, 2018

The book has just been published by Boydell & Brewer. If you're interested in get... more The book has just been published by Boydell & Brewer. If you're interested in getting hold of a copy, please avail yourself of this offer!

The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries, 2004

Parergon, 2012

scant documentary resources available to historians of the still under-studied century and a half... more scant documentary resources available to historians of the still under-studied century and a half following the Edwardian conquest and settlement of 1282-4. The central chapters of the book assess social, economic, administrative, urban and ecclesiastical developments on Anglesey within this time frame. However, where documentary evidence exists, this book often presents as much tedious detail as analysis, offering, for example, long series sums from accounts, rentals, etc. which are copious beyond the indicative, and yet, the reader expects, not exhaustive. These data undeniably comprise a valuable resource for other historians of post-conquest Wales, and yet they are presented here in a manner which renders them both problematic for analytical comparison and an impediment for the non-specialist reader. Hence, the unusually detailed scholarship contained within this volume, like its first-edition predecessor of 1982, is at one and the same time the volume's principal asset and its Achilles' heel. For those familiar with the first edition of Medieval Anglesey, none of the criticisms levelled here will come as surprise. Reviews of the 1982 first edition ranged from the tepid endorsement presented in this journal, that the volume would be 'welcomed and appreciated' by historians of the interplay of later medieval economic and social development (infra, lxix (1984), 307), to the outright hostile review published in Speculum suggesting that general readers would be 'actively discouraged from reading this book' (Speculum, lx (1985), 474). But, likewise, it will be similarly unsurprisingly to read here that the volume's failings notwithstanding, it is too important a resource for historians of later medieval Wales to not have on their shelf. In the article-driven world of later-medieval Welsh history, this volume is a repository of information and references to often obscure, and yet very important, scholarship on Welsh history. In response to some of the criticisms directed at the first edition, the second edition features an improved set of nine maps and five genealogical tables which have been well drawn and helpfully collated at the back of the volume. Unlike the fourteen poorly produced plates to be found in the first edition, the new edition contains twenty high-resolution colour plates of exemplary quality, including six (easily legible) primary sources. The glossary of twenty-nine terms hidden away at the back of the first edition has been replaced by a forty-nineterm glossary more helpfully located at the front of the volume. The first two chapters (of ten) alone contain references to twenty scholarly books and articles published since the first edition-the findings of which Professor Carr has integrated into his text-and collated in a thorough bibliography. And indeed, a handful of important narratives in Welsh history which are not easily accessible in print elsewhere, such as the evolving relationship between English and Welsh in the towns of later medieval Anglesey, do emerge from the detail of the text. Overall therefore, the second edition of Medieval Anglesey, despite, or perhaps because of, its tedious and dense presentation of material, is an important upgraded resource for historians of medieval Welsh society, if still not a suitable text for the general reader. Swansea University MATTHEW FRANK STEVENS Normandy and its Neighbours 900-1250: Essays for David Bates. Edited by David Crouch and Kathleen Thompson. Brepols. 2011. xxiv + 310pp. €80.00. As the author of what is still the best history of pre-1066 Normandy, the biographer of William the Conqueror and the editor of his acta, as well as the director of the Battle Norman Conference, David Bates looms over Anglo-Norman studies like a latter-day King William, almost as monarch of all he surveys-although he entirely lacks the brutality that scarred that king's rule. This excellent Festschrift, edited by two of his former doctoral students, is an appropriate tribute to a distinguished career, and like the work of the scholar whom it honours, this collection takes an overtly cross-Channel perspective, starting from the duchy of Normandy and only later turning to Anglo-Norman

La guerre en Normandie (XIe-XVe siècle), 2018

Cette contribution réexamine les campagnes militaires qui menèrent entre 1202 et 1204 à l’annexio... more Cette contribution réexamine les campagnes militaires qui menèrent entre 1202 et 1204 à l’annexion capétienne de la Normandie. Depuis l’œuvre célèbre de Maurice Powicke, The Loss of Normandy (1913), un grand nombre d’études ont examiné ce conflit, mais il reste toujours beaucoup à comprendre du déroulement de la guerre. La contribution commence par une considération des documents fiscaux, des chartes et lettres, et des récits, pour montrer ce qu’ils révèlent de l’avance française en Normandie ainsi que des essais des forces Plantagenêt pour défendre le duché. Ensuite, elle fournit quelques aperçus sur l’identité des participants et sur leur connexion l’un avec l’autre, qui influencèrent le déroulement de la guerre. Enfin, elle présente une série de cartes qui aident à la compréhension de l’établissement du pouvoir capétien en Normandie au fur et à mesure que Philippe Auguste sécurisa les forteresses, le territoire et les allégeances des Normands. Considérées ensemble, ces approches indiquent de nouvelles pistes de recherche qui contribuent à améliorer notre compréhension de la chute du « royaume anglo-normand » et de l’« empire Plantagenêt ».This article reappraises the campaigns between 1202 and 1204 that led to the Capetian annexation of Normandy. Despite Maurice Powicke’s epoch-making work The Loss of Normandy (1913) and a number of more recent studies, much still remains to be deduced about the course of the war. The article first considers what fiscal records, charters and letters, and narrative accounts reveal about the French advance into Normandy and the attempts of the Angevin forces to defend the province. It then discusses the identities of the participants as well as the family connections that helped to shape the course of the war. It concludes with a series of maps that depict the French advance as Philip Augustus progressively secured the fortresses, territory, and allegiances of the Normans. Taken together, these different approaches highlight how further research will contribute to our understanding of the fall of the “Anglo-Norman realm” and “Angevin Empire”

In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Ol... more In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the reign of King Henry III of England, ending with an account of the translation of the relics of St Thomas Becket to their magnificent new shrine in Canterbury Cathedral in 1220. Along the way, it adopted and formed part of a tradition of writing of the history of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England, a tradition which had developed in Latin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and then continued in Old French. The work is famous for vibrant and informed description of the reign of King John, in particular the period of baronial reaction, Magna Carta, ensuing civil war and the nearly-successful invasion of England by Louis, heir to the kingdom of France. Flanders supplied troops to both sides, and this Flemish author sees these events in close detail, and from the Flemish, not the French or English, point of view. He may himself have been an eyewitness, directly involved, but if not he would have known many who had fought and died in this conflict. Janet Shirley’s translation of this chronicle, the first into English, brings the work of the Anonymous of Béthune to a new audience in this volume, accompanied by an introduction and historical notes by Paul Webster

Culture et société médiévales, 2005

Boydell Press eBooks, 2013

The Encyclopedia of Empire, 2016

Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes

... En quête de sécurité juridique dans la Normandie angevine: concorde finale et inscription au ... more ... En quête de sécurité juridique dans la Normandie angevine: concorde finale et inscription au rouleau. Autores: Daniel Power; Localización: Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, ISSN 0373-6237, Vol. 168, Nº. 2, 2010 , págs. 327-371. Fundación Dialnet. ...

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The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries, 2000