Anglo-Norman Studies XXXV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2012

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A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this important period of history. This volume of Anglo-Norman Studies demonstrates yet again the multi-disciplinarity and European range of the series. As befits the proceedings of a conference held in Normandy at Bayeux, it contains two articles on the renowned Tapestry, and a consideration of the campaign of 1066; there are also several papers on the medieval duchy, their topics including its early tenth-century origins, the abbesses of Norman nunneries, abbatial investitures in the context of religious reform, the reign of Robert Curthose, the charters of a major aristocratic family, and historical writing in and around late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Normandy. Alongside these are articles on landscape and belief, villein manumissions and the theology of the incarnation, the evolution of criminal law in Scotland, Bohemond of Antioch, the architectural historian John Bilson, and important aspects of twelfth-century poetry. List of Illustrations and Tables ix Editor’s Preface xiii Abbreviations xvi A Three-Cornered Dynamic of Redemption in the ‘Long’ Thirteenth Century: Villein Manumissions and the Theology of the Incarnation (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2011) / Paul R. Hyams 1 Femmes en religion, personnes d’autorité: les abbesses normandes (XIe–XIIIe siècles) (The R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2012) / Véronique Gazeau 17 The Role of the Curator of the Bayeux Tapestry / Sylvette Lemagnen 35 Early Normandy / Lesley Abrams 45 The Norman Conquest, Countess Adela, and Abbot Baudri / Bernard S. Bachrach 65 Baldric of Bourgueil and the Flawed Hero / Steven Biddlecombe 79 John Bilson (1856–1943) and the Study of Anglo-Norman Romanesque / Alexandrina Buchanan 95 The Identity of the Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry / Howard B. Clarke 119 The Pseudo-Hugh Falcandus in His Own Texts / Edoardo D’Angelo 141 The Thirteenth-Century Chronique de Normandie / Gregory Fedorenko 163 Les investitures abbatiales en Normandie: quelques réflexions autour du cas de l’abbaye du Bec-Hellouin (1034–1136) / Jean-Hervé Foulon 181 Robert Curthose: The Duke Who Lost His Trousers / George Garnett 213 Sufficientia: A Horatian Topos and the Boundaries of the Self in Three Twelfth-Century Poems / Monika Otter 245 Aristocratic 'Acta' in Normandy and England, c. 1150 – c. 1250: The Charters and Letters of the Du Hommet Constables of Normandy / Daniel Power 259 Crime without Punishment: Medieval Scottish Law in Comparative Perspective / Alice Taylor 287 Landscape and Belief in Anglo-Norman England / C. S. Watkins 305