Anglo-Norman Studies XXXIX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2016

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Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. This year's volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this area, across a variety of disciplines. Topics include the forging of the Battle Abbey Chronicle; warring schoolmasters in eleventh-century Rouen; theimpact of the Conquest on England; the circulation of manuscripts between England and Normandy; and Earl Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross. Illustrations and Tables vii Editor’s Preface ix Abbreviations xi Why Do Battles Matter? / Christopher Clark 1 From Conquest to Commonwealth: Cross-Channel Circulation of Biblical Culture in the Anglo-Norman World / Julie Barrau 11 Documentation, Forgery and the Making of the Chronicle of Battle Abbey (British Library, Cotton MS Domitian A II) / Laura Cleaver 27 Rival Schoolmasters in Early Eleventh-Century Rouen with Special Reference to the Poetry of Warner of Rouen (fl. 996–1027) (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay) / F. P. C. de Jong 45 Remembering the Battle of Hastings: Memorialization, Le Souvenir Normand, and the Entente Cordiale / Brian Golding 65 Earl Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross (1062) / Simon Keynes 81 Edward the Confessor and the Succession Question: A Fresh Look at the Sources / Tom Licence 113 England and Flanders around 1066: The Cult of the English Saints Oswald and Lewinna in the Comital Abbey of Bergues / Brigitte Meijns 129 The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio and the Poetics of 1067 / Thomas O’Donnell 151 England and Germany: Two Perspectives / Alheydis Plassmann 167 Les préparatifs nautiques de la Conquête: un héritage viking? Les mots ont la parole / Élisabeth Ridel 183 Battle Abbey and the Vellomaniacs: Locating the Monastic Archive / Christopher Whittick 203 Of Danes and Thegns and Domesday Book: Scandinavian Settlement in Eleventh-Century Berkshire / Ann Williams 219