Piety, power and history in medieval England and Normandy
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Piety, power and history in medieval England and Normandy
（Variorum collected studies series, CS683）
Ashgate, c2000
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The studies in this volume are broadly concerned with ecclesiastical history as envisaged in the work of Orderic Vitalis - the history of society and culture, comprising the life and activities of lay men and women in war and peace no less than those of monks and clerks, with a special emphasis on monasteries in the Anglo-Saxon world. Some enlarge directly on Orderic's work; others deal with aspects of the life of the Empress Matilda, and with St Anselm and Bec-Hellouin. The underlying themes, in addition to history as written by both monks and secular clerks and its sources in chronicles and charters are piety (including the mixed motives of monastic patrons) and power in both church and state and the conflicts these engendered. It has been said that the history of mediaeval power is to be sought in its microcosms; these studies look closely at some of the microcosms.
Table of Contents
- A 12th-century view of the historical church - Orderic Vitalis
- the Merovingian monastery of St Evroul in the light of conflicting traditions
- the translation of the relics of St Nicholas and Norman historical tradition
- Corbie et l'Angleterre
- le problame des reseaux monastiques en Angleterre
- women in Orderic Vitalis
- la carriere de Geoffroi de Montbray
- from Bec to Canterbury - Anselm and monastic privilege
- the relations of St Anselm with the English dependencies of the Abbey of Bec, 1079-1093
- the English possession of Bec in the time of Anselm
- the Empress Matilda and church reform
- the charters of the Empress Matilda
- Normandy
- Anglo-French relations in the work of Orderic Vitalis
- Orderic Vitalis on castles
- Robert of Belleme and the castle of Tickhill
- mercenaries and the familia regis under Henry I
- charter and chronicle - the use of archive sources by Norman historians
- forgery in narrative charters
- John of Salisbury as historian
- "Clio's legal cosmetics" - law and custom in the work of mediaeval historians.
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