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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Anglo-Norman"”.
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‘Episcopal Power in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135’
… in the narrative sources for the episcopate of Anglo-Norman England, but not in the reality of episcopal conduct, and that historians have often been misled by these narrative sources, reproducing a model of episcopal power which was little more than a monastic fantasy.
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The Anglo-Norman nobility in the reign of Henry I
… dissertation is a prosopographical study of the Anglo-Norman nobility in the first half of the twelfth century. By the twelfth century, the status, wealth and power of this class had come to be based more on the inheritance of position than on an individual’s military or administrative function. …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
… study of the wives of the clergy in England and Normandy from 1050 to 1150. After the Norman Conquest of England (1066), both regions shared an elite ruling class and the churches shared personnel. However, the different social and political contexts of the English and Norman churches ensured …
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Pragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation: Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles
… examines the chronicles written in England and Normandy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and explores how the writers of these histories perceived women. This study is meant to illuminate the lives of the women in the Anglo-Norman chronicles at every stage of life. While many modern books …
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Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
… models and greatly enhances our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics and society.
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The Unfree in the Anglo-Norman Realm c.1000-c.1100 with special reference to slavery
… thesis is a comparative study of the unfree in Normandy and England in the eleventh century. The unfree formed a large percentage of the population in these areas, along a scale from the most unfree, the slaves, to the nearest to freedom, arguably the villeins. Although this thesis is concerned …
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FORGETTING THE WEAKNESS OF HER SEX AND A WOMAN'S SOFTNESS':HISTORIANS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD AND THEIR FEMALE SUBJECT'
… this project focuses geographically on the Anglo-Norman world: England, Normandy, Blois, and the surrounding counties of influence. This work is further restricted to eight major historians, one historical compilation, and six women from this place and time. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle will …
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The patronage and benefaction of Cistercian monasteries in the frontier zones of the March of Wales, 1130-c.1256.
… plantation in Wales was initiated by the Norman invaders in the south, but within a few decades the Cistercian Order had been enthusiastically adopted by the Welsh princes and their subjects and a family of Welsh Cistercian monasteries established throughout the length and breadth of pura …
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Animal exploitation in medieval Ireland
… focus more on narrative history, while the Anglo-Norman material tends to be much more bureaucratic in nature. Both must be treated differently when using their information in concert with the archaeological record. Throughout this work, slightly more emphasis will be placed upon the …
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An edition of the Middle English Pains of Sin from Cambridge, Magdelene College Library, Ms Pepys 2498
… versions, including a hitherto unsuspected Anglo-Norman original for the text, which places the work in the Middle English tradition of translation from Latin and Anglo-Norman, and the huge growth in borrowing from French vocabulary that occurred in the late fourteenth century. Possible …
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
In the century following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, literary texts operated as a battleground upon which ethnically diverse, multilingual British writers fought to determine what British identity would ultimately become. Through a medieval postcolonial framework, in which power and …
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The Norman episcopate, 989-1110
… social and cultural development of ducal Normandy. Not only men of great political power, many strove to create vibrant centres of learning in their dioceses, and accounts of their efforts to reform the Norman Church spread throughout Europe. However, while the episcopate of …
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The origins of the lordship of Leinster and the role of William Marshal: perceptions and reality
… Gaelic provincial kingdom of Leinster into an Anglo-Norman feudal lordship and explores the role William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke played its subsequent development. There are several strands to this study. It begins with an investigation of the way Marshal –whose role in English history was …
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Cultural expressions of episcopal power 1070- c.1150
… cultural expressions of episcopal power in Anglo-Norman England. Bishops were powerful men who operated within a complex power structure. It addresses three key cultural themes: language, the body and space. Using a variety of source material this study offers a wide-ranging vision of …
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From Fear of Hell to Love of Christ: The Monastic Devotional Use of MS K.21 in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge
… and the final years of the Virgin Mary via 101 Anglo-Norman text passages and 103 painted miniatures. The ninety-six extant folios of K.21 likely constitute the final eight quires of an extended psalter. Despite its Anglo-Norman French content and image density, internal evidence connects the …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
… a 'Good Wife' along with a Middle Scots and an Anglo-Norman poem. These texts reveal the strictures on middle class female behavior and rely on concrete, specific details of physical objects and exempla; the Good Wife narrator presents herself as the mother of her audience, engaging the familial …
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Praying the Passion: Laypeople's Participation in Medieval Liturgy and Devotion
… hymn to the cross, Patris Sapiencia, and Anglo-Norman and English Mass Prayers. This thesis demonstrates that the placement of these prayers in medieval books reveals that they were intended actively to be read by the laity as they followed the vernacular alongside the Latin of medieval …
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