Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND TABLES
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Kingship, Lordship, and Community in Eleventh-Century England (R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)
- Citadels of God: Monasteries, Violence, and the Struggle for Power in Northern England, 1135–1154
- Writing Civil War in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum
- Land, Family, and Depredation: The Case of St Benet of Holme's Manor of Little Melton
- Brothers at Court: Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser
- Gerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin
- The First Hundred Years of the Abbey of Tiron: Institutionalizing the Reform of the Forest Hermits
- All Roads Lead to Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135
- The Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey
- William of Malmesbury, King Henry I, and the Gesta Regum Anglorum
- Twelfth-Century Receptions of a Text: Anglo-Norman Historians and Hegesippus
- LIST OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES 1–30
EDITOR'S PREFACE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND TABLES
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Kingship, Lordship, and Community in Eleventh-Century England (R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)
- Citadels of God: Monasteries, Violence, and the Struggle for Power in Northern England, 1135–1154
- Writing Civil War in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum
- Land, Family, and Depredation: The Case of St Benet of Holme's Manor of Little Melton
- Brothers at Court: Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser
- Gerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin
- The First Hundred Years of the Abbey of Tiron: Institutionalizing the Reform of the Forest Hermits
- All Roads Lead to Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135
- The Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey
- William of Malmesbury, King Henry I, and the Gesta Regum Anglorum
- Twelfth-Century Receptions of a Text: Anglo-Norman Historians and Hegesippus
- LIST OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES 1–30
Summary
The 31st annual Battle Conference was held at its customary venue, Pyke House in Battle, from 24 to 28 July 2008. All the papers read during the conference are printed here. They include the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, honouring the conference's founder, which was delivered on the first evening by Professor Judith Green of the University of Edinburgh, once an undergraduate pupil of Allen's. The lecture is supported by the R. Allen Brown Memorial Trust, a registered charity. The opening reception and the lecture were held at Battle abbey by kind permission of the headmaster of Battle Abbey School. The Trust welcomed a group of local historians and others from Battle and district to the event. Further information about the Battle Conference can be seen at www.battleconference.com.
The outing on Saturday 26 July ventured into West Sussex on a delightfully sunny day, taking in the churches at Lyminster, Burpham, and Poling, and lunching at the George & Dragon, Burpham, adjacent to one of King Alfred's burhs. The landlord and his staff provided excellent hospitality, all the more impressive given that they were also serving a large wedding party. The incumbents, churchwardens, and church helpers at all three churches are warmly thanked for their obliging help. Carol Davidson Cragoe and Chris Lewis led the tour. Back at Pyke House there were displays of new books by Boydell & Brewer, Oxford University Press, and Shaun Tyas, all of whom are thanked for adding much to the interest of the conference.
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 31Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2008, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009