People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Medieval Norman Worlds

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This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples they subjugated, among whom many then settled. Editors’ preface vii List of contributors ix List of plates and figures xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction / David Bates and Elisabeth van Houts 1 1. Harness pendants and the rise of armory / John Baker 17 2. The transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c.1050–c.1250 / Elma Brenner 47 3. Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo’s De Balneis Puteolanis: new hypotheses / Teofilo De Angelis 65 4. A Latin school in the Norman principality of Antioch / Edoardo D’Angelo 77 5. Culti e agiografie d’età normanna in Italia meridionale / Amalia Galdi 89 6. The landscape of Anglo-Norman England: chronology and cultural transmission / Robert Liddiard 105 7. The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava / G. A. Loud 127 8. Écrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et de Geoffroi Malaterra / Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel 153 9. Bede’s legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon / Alheydis Plassmann 171 10. The transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth century / Daniel Power 193 11. Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050–1150 / Patricia Skinner 213 12. Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century Normandy / Alice Taylor 231 13. Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of Sicily / Mario Rosario Zecchino 253 Index 267