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The contributions collected here demonstrate the full range and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period, from a variety of different angles and disciplines. Topics include architecture and material remains in Winchester, Kent and Hampshire; the role of Duke Richard II and Abbot John of Fecamp in early Normandy; political and liturgical culture at the Anglo-Norman and Angevin courts; the lost (illustrated?) prototype of Dudo of Saint-Quentin's early Norman history and Geoffrey of Monmouth's motivation for his Historia Regum Britonum; twelfth-century legal scholarship and the archaic use of vernacular vocabulary in law texts; trade and travel; and a study of episcopal acta from the south-western Norman dioceses. Contributors: Richard Allen, Pierre Bauduin, Johanna Dale, Jennifer Farrell, Peter Fergusson, Sara Harris, Nicholas Karn, Edmund King, Lauren Mancia, Eljas Oksanen, Gesine Oppitz-Trotman, Benjamin Pohl, Katherine Weikert

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Anglo-Norman Studies XXXVII
• Author: Elisabeth van Houts
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 307
• EAN: 9781783270248
• ISBN: 1783270241
• ID: 09226939
• Publisher: BOYQ
• Weight: 708 g
• Dimensions: 156 × 234 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. May 2015

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