Bøger af R. Allen Brown

R. Allen Brown selects original material - literature, legal documents, letters and objects -to present the Norman Conquest.

Classic work assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest in European context.

Aquitainian Participation in the Conquest; Stereotype Normans in Vernacular Literature; Byzantine Marginalia to the Norman Conquest; Norman Architectural Patronage; Domesday Book and the Teneurial Revolution; Henry of Huntingdonand Historia Anglorum; Domesday Inquest and Land Adjudication; Abbey of Cava; Post-Conquest Attitudes to the Saints of the Anglo-Saxons; Danish Geometrical Viking Fortresses; Holy Face of Lucca. G. BEECH, M. BENNETT, K.CIGGAAR, E. FERNIE, R. FLEMING, D. GREENWAY, P. HYAMS, G.A. LOUD, S.J. RIDYARD, E. ROESDAHL, D. WEBB.34 plates, figs.

thelwine, Pre-Conquest Sheriff; Alliances of lfgar of Mercia; Castle Studies since 1850; Charles the Bald's Fortified Bridges; Clares and the Crown; Coastal Salt Production; Hydrographic and Ship Hydrodynamic Aspects of the Invasion; Leland and Historians; Monks in the World: Gundulf of Rochester; Obtaining Benefices in 12c E. Anglia; St Pancras Priory, Lewes; Slavery; Wace and Warfare.

Includes: Battle of Hastings; Seemiologie du tombeau de comte de Champagne; Romanesque Rebuilding of Westminster Abbey; Chichester Cathedral; Cluniacs in England; Battle Abbey; William fitz Osbern and Lyre Abbey; Gesta Normannorum Ducum; Honour of Clare; Norman Settlement in Dyfed; Women and Succession; And more.

Includes such topics as: Battles in England and Normandy 1066-1154; Philip II's Fortress Policy in Normandy; Order of Sempringham; Anselm's Letters; Henry I, War and Diplomacy; Introduction of Knight Service in England; Scandinavian influence in 11th-Century Norman Literature; and, Gesta Normannorum.

Includes topics such as: origins of the Justiciarship; Goltho Manor; Gesta Guillelmi; Knight Service in England; Baldwin, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds; Common Law and the French Connection; Round and his Calendar; Gens Normannorum; Rites of the Conqueror; Chateau de Feecamp; and, Codex Wintoniensis.

Includes topics about Norman Romanesque Sculpture: Regional Groups; Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest; Bayeux Tapestry; Military Service before 1066; England and Byzantium; Abbatiale de Bernay; Sompting Church; William's Sheriffs; The House of Redvers and its Foundations; Anglo-Norman Verse; and, The Umfravilles in Northumberland.

Covers Empress Matilda and Bec-Hellouin; Bayeux Tapestry; Warhorses of the Normans; S-Vaast-sur-Seulles; St Anselm and William the Conqueror; Early Savignac and Cistercian Architecture in Normandy; St Anselm on Lay Investiture; Ship List of William the Conqueror; Regenbald the Chancellor; William's Bishops; and, Arms, Armour and Warfare.

Covers Military Administration of the Norman Conquest; Romanesque Sculpture at St Georges de Boscherville and Hyde Abbey; Seasonal Festivals and Residence in Winchester, Westminster and Gloucester; Mrs Ella Armitage and Castle Studies; Local Loyalties in Stephen's Reign; Franci et Angli - Legal Distinctions; and, St Bernard and England.

Covers such topics as: Normans in Africa, Majorca and the Muslim Mediterranean; Ministers in the Midlands; Aristocration autour du Bec, 1077; Naval Logistics of the Cross-Channel Operation, 1066; England and the Holy Land; William Turbe, Bishop of Norwich; Housecarls in England in 11c; and, Illustrations of Warfare in 11c England.

A reissue of the classic guide to the origins, purpose and identity of the great castles of England and Wales, built after the arrival of the Normans.