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Villegas-Aristizabal, Lucas. "Norman and Anglo-Norman participation in the Iberian Reconquista, c.1018 - c.1248." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10283/.
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This thesis covers the Norman and Anglo-Norman contribution to the Iberian Reconquista from the early eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries. It explores the involvement of these groups as part of the changing ideas of Holy War and their transformation as result of the First Crusade. It shows that although the Reconquista was the result of important political and economic factors within the Iberian realms, the theological aura that the papacy started placing on this conflict was a powerful motivator increasing the interest of the Normans and later Anglo-Normans, especially when coincidental with the general call for crusade in western Europe that resulted in the large expeditions that are known to us as the crusades. To cover these areas, this work is divided in four main sections: the first, Chapter II, pursues chronologically the careers of individual members of the Norman nobility such as Roger of Tosny, Robert Crispin and Robert Burdet as they became involved. It also addresses the influence that institutions like Cluny and the papacy might have had in the creation of the idea of the Reconquista in the minds of those involved. The second section, Chapter III explores the brief decline of the Norman interest in the peninsula as a result of the Norman conquest of England and the First Crusade. It also explores the revitalization of the Norman interest in the peninsular conflict with the careers of Rotrou of Perche and Robert Burdet. Chapter IV, addresses the large contribution of the Anglo-Normans as part of the Second Crusade and their motivations and the impact of their arrival on the Iberian realms. Chapter V explores the participation of the lower aristocracy and merchants from the mid-twelfth century onwards in the coastal actions on both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Iberia, showing the impact that these actions had in the Reconquista. Finally, Chapter VI explores how the changing political circumstances in Iberia and the Anglo-Norman domains helped to increase awareness during the rise of the Angevin empire and the newly found diplomatic relations between the two regions. However, it also shows that although by the thirteenth century the Reconquista was perceived as a legitimate area of crusading, the political and economic circumstances on the peninsula as well as of the English Crown had important repercussions for the drastic decline in the number of participants.
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Spence, John Benjamin William. "Re-imagining history in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613968.
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O'Rourke, Samuel. "Episcopal power in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48695/.
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The thesis presents an empirical view of episcopal power in England from 1066 to 1135. For simplicity’s sake, ‘power’ is defined as efficacy, or the ability to achieve one’s ends. No formal distinction is made here between ‘power’ and ‘authority’. The bulk of the thesis (Chapters 3-5) consists of three case studies: the first examines the political relationship between bishops, the papacy and the kings of England; the second looks at episcopal landholding; and the third considers disputes between bishoprics and abbeys. These case studies start by asking what bishops did: what their political goals were and the extent to which they achieved them. They then ask how bishops did what they did: what resources bishops deployed; why certain actions were possible; why certain strategies were or were not successful. By doing this it is possible to determine the nature of the power which bishops exercised. Three conclusions emerge: firstly, that episcopal power was highly dependent on royal power in this period; secondly, that the basis of episcopal power was often intangible (ideology or personality), rather than material (land or money); and thirdly, that episcopal power was inherently limited, in that bishops sometimes had very little freedom of action. Chapters 1 and 2 are not case studies. They are concerned with ideals of episcopal power. Chapter 1 shows that ideals of episcopal conduct and episcopal power (as expressed in contemporary hagiography) changed in eleventh-century England. It attempts to link these changes to historical developments in this period. Chapter 2 shows that these changing ideals were reflected 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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Dickson, Morgan Elizabeth May. "Twelfth-century insular narrative : the Romance of Horn and related texts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272566.
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Ihnat, Kati. "Mary and the Jews in Anglo-Norman monastic culture." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2404.
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Anglo-Norman England saw the development of two parallel and related phenomena: the growth of the cult of the Virgin Mary and increasing engagement with ideas about Jews and Judaism. This thesis looks at the ways in which Benedictine monks contributed to the fashioning of images of Jews in sources related to the Marian cult in the post-Conquest period, 1066-1154. Approaching monastic culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines materials as diverse as sermons, liturgy, theological treatises, and art and architecture for the evolution of the Marian cult after the arrival of the Normans, tracing the reform of liturgical practices that spurred considerable innovation in the cult’s development. It explores these same sources for images of Jews, and finds that Jews were at the centre of reflection on Mary in theological and apocryphal traditions dating back to early Christianity, with Jews acting as prototypical doubters of Mary’s sanctity and virginity. Taken up with renewed interest in Anglo-Norman England, theological consideration of Mary’s place in the Christian narrative was complemented by the first compilation of collections of her miracles, part of an impulse to record the lives and miracles of saints in post-Conquest England. As a fundamental yet little explored element of the Marian cult, the miracles showcase liturgical practices worthy of reward, and contrast her devotees with Jews, portrayed as sacrilegious, blaspheming and violent. Through miracle, sermon, liturgy and theology, English monasteries at the turn of the twelfth century helped to construct images of Jews connected with the burdgeoning cult of the Virgin that had a lasting and pervasive legacy
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Munns, John Millington. "The cross of Christ and Anglo-Norman religious imagination." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609002.
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Tiller, Kenneth Jack. "Lazamon's "Brut" and the Anglo-Norman vision of history /." Cardiff : University of Wales press, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41040855x.
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Cengel, Lauren. "Partners in Rule: A Study of Twelfth-Century Queens of England." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338305706.
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Mew, Karin Anne. "'Thro a glass darkly' : the biography of a Domesday landscape; the 'Nova foresta'." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363660.
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Valentine, Elizabeth Anne. "An edition the Anglo-Norman content of five medical manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279772.
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Slevin, John Patrick. "The historical writing of Alfred of Beverley." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14432.
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This thesis examines the historical writing of the twelfth-century Yorkshire historian Alfred of Beverley, compiler of a Latin chronicle covering the history of Britain from its supposed foundation by Brutus down to the time of Henry I. From the late Middle Ages until the eighteenth century Alfred enjoyed a considerable reputation amongst chroniclers, antiquaries and topographers but by the mid-nineteenth century scholarly opinion had come to consider his work highly derivative, uninformative and of little historical value. The chronicle was printed by Thomas Hearne in 1716, but was never edited in the Rolls Series and the text has remained largely neglected until today. Alfred’s sources in the chronicle have been identified and his use of them examined. The circumstances and date of compilation have been reconsidered and supported by internal evidence from the text, a date of compilation of c.1148 - c.1151 x 1154 is proposed. Alfred’s purpose and intended audience of the work has been considered and evidence for the work’s dissemination and reception from the twelfth to the seventeenth century has been gathered in order to assess the place of the work in medieval historiography. This study finds the Historia to be a text of considerable historical interest and value. It shares common features with historical narratives of the first half of the twelfth century in attempting to provide a comprehensive account of the island’s past, but does so in a more concise, less discursive literary manner. It reveals the application of the methodologies of scholastic exegesis to the writing of history, in its language, textual organization and in the interrogation of authorities that it engages in to determine the veracity of historical data.The text is an important witness for the dissemination of the important twelfth-century source texts it uses. It is the first Latin chronicle to incorporate Geoffrey of Monmouth’s British history into its narrative fabric (Henry of Huntingdon’s c.1139 abbreviation of Geoffrey’s history was inserted as a self-standing ‘Letter to Warinus’). Alfred’s critical reception of the Galfridian material is examined in the thesis. The extensive borrowings from Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, John of Worcester and the Durham Historia Regum, provide important evidence for the dissemination of these texts, which the thesis examines. A finding of the study is that the Historia has been powerfully influenced by Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum in its structure and thematic approach. The later reception of Alfred’s Historia by Ranulph Higden in his Universal Chronicle Polychronicon is examined and the impact that this had on Alfred’s later reception in historiography, from William Caxton to William Camden is traced and explored.
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Bradley, Helene. "Anglo Norman frontiers in Ireland and Wales : a comparative analysis." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428236.
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Freestone, Hazel Anne. "The priest's wife in the Anglo-Norman realm, 1050-1150." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274142.
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This thesis is a prosopographical 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 very different responses to the drive to impose clerical celibacy. The overwhelming majority of women associated with clergy can be considered wives; there is no evidence of widespread clerical concubinage. Where women can be identified, it could be inferred that wives came from similar social groups as their husbands. All evidence suggests that clergymen’s marriages remained valid and their children were not made illegitimate by the decretals of the First Lateran Council (1123) or Second Lateran Council (1139) as current scholarship assumes. Clergymen continued to marry because clerical marriage remained the norm. Daughters continued to find appropriate marriages. The position of priests’ sons deteriorated overall, but the difficulties they faced varied from place to place and over time. Married clergy remained a significant presence, at every grade from bishop to parish priest throughout the first hundred years of reform on both sides of the Channel. Clerical celibacy was a divisive issue before 1100 in Normandy, but was never as important in England. Married clergy in England do not appear to have suffered the same degree of pressure as married clergy in Normandy. The effect of the Norman Conquest is an underestimated factor in modern scholarship on clerical celibacy. Overall, the modern narrative of clerical celibacy and priestly marriage needs to be grounded in the political and social context of each region, traced over time and reframed in order to reflect the lived experience of priests, their wives and their families.
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Watkins, Carl S. "Wonders in central medieval chronicles of the Anglo-Norman realm." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272504.
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McBride, Stephan D. "Empirical analyses of decision-making in Anglo-Norman legal cases /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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McCague, Hugh George. "Building with God, Anglo-Norman Durham, Bury St. Edmunds and Norwich." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0021/NQ56245.pdf.
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Pestell, Tim. "An analysis of monastic foundation in East Anglia c.650-1200." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311356.
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Ashe, Laura. "Narrative ideologies c.1066-c.1200 : studies in selected Anglo-Norman texts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614686.
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Younge, George Ruder. "The Canterbury anthology : an old English manuscript in its Anglo-Norman context." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648123.
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Symons, David John. "Aspects of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman mint of Worcester, 975-1158." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421715.
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This study examines one of the seventy or so mints that produced England's coinage in the tenth to twelfth centuries. The main focus is on the forty plus moneyers who worked at the mint. Each moneyer's surviving coins are analysed and an attempt is made to reconstruct his likely career. Possible identifications of the moneyers in the surviving documents from Worcester are also discussed. The linguistic origin of each moneyer's name is also examined. Another chapter considers the Worcester moneyers as a group, in light of the evidence we have for moneyers elsewhere in England. It is argued that the Worcester mint was established in the 970s by moneyers moving from Chester for the purpose. However, the later Worcester moneyers seem to be locals, from the upper levels of burgess society, some of them possibly goldsmiths. They seem to restrict their minting activity to Worcester, with no evidence that any were involved with other mints. The study also includes a reign-by-reign discussion of the mint's activity and a brief section on the contribution coins can make to a study of the development of the name 'Worcester'. Underpinning all of this is a catalogue of more than 550 surviving Worcester coins.
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Johns, Susan M. "Aristocratic and noblewomen and power in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368506.
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Raich, Susan Alice. "The sea in the Anglo-Norman realm, c. 1050 to c. 1180." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708404.
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Sargan, J. D. "Creative reading : using books in the vernacular context of Anglo-Norman England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:35c6b458-d753-4491-b360-c29b76615992.
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This thesis responds to a lack of information regarding reading practice in literature in early Middle English. Here, reading is often used as a metaphorical or symbolic act - representing piety, devotional practice, or intellectualism - but how reading took place, how users engaged with books, is rarely figured. Other seams of evidence are therefore needed to access the reading process. The corpus of manuscripts on which I focus consists of thirty-three multilingual books containing English, Latin, and French produced in England between 1066 and c. 1300. Using this corpus, and inspired by the work of Leah Price, Juliet Fleming, Kathryn Rudy, and others, I seek to test the boundaries of what has previously been considered permissible evidence for reading, thereby adjusting and expanding current conceptions of the range of activities and practices high medieval book use entailed. The thesis begins with a case study of some important readers: scribes. In chapter one, using the seven surviving copies of Poema Morale as a corpus I read against current critical considerations of variance in manuscript transmission as a sign of 'scribal authorship' in order to establish practices of scribal reading. Chapters two and three go on to demonstrate how these 'scribal readers' prefigured a work's use as they copied, particularly when they chose to introduce or exclude textual apparatus in the form of titles, capitals, or paraph marks. The final part of the thesis examines the retrospective evidence of use left by readers who marked and altered their books to determine the extent to which readers conformed to the practices imagined by manuscript producers. As a whole, then, the thesis showcases the variegated nature of reading practice - from critical analysis to nugatory scanning - and the alternative uses for books in English in this period. It shows that vernacular reading was a work of 'embodied intellectual labour' that benefitted from the material form of the book, and that engagement and manipulation of this form was not just tolerated, but expected, and perhaps actively encouraged.
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Walters, Hannah. "Translating clerical cultures in twelfth-and early thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman narrative." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683392.
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This dissertation seeks to place Anglo-Norman narrative more firmly in its contemporary literary context by examining how vernacular writers in England during the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries borrowed elements of contemporary Latin writings. More importantly, it is a study of the cultural transformations that took place when vernacular writers used material traditionally found in clerical contexts. I argue that by using Latin discourses in their own narratives, Anglo-Norman writers made clerical material more suitable for wider textual communities - including lay audiences. My work develops the research of scholars who have argued that the interaction between vernacular and Latin literary traditions in England during the high Middle Ages needs to be examined more fully. It also complements scholarship which has sought to define medieval translation as a form of cultural adaptation as well as simply linguistic change. Over the course of this dissertation I examine how vernacular hagiographers and authors of romance transform material borrowed from clerical literary traditions. In particular, I explore how Anglo-Norman writers integrated the monastic discourse of contemptus mundi, antifeminist polemic and crusading rhetoric into their narratives. I argue that by transferring this material into their own works, vernacular writers enacted a process of cultural transformation, altering the meaning, significance and purpose of clerical themes, ideas and rhetoric for new audiences. Anglo-Norman narrative was not distinct from contemporary Latin traditions, but neither was it slavishly dependent on them. The interplay between the two traditions was sophisticated, intelligent and meaningful.
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Tubiana, Elisa <1995>. "The reception of the Anglo-Norman Tristan and Iseult in Medieval England." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16965.
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L’elaborato mira a studiare lo sviluppo del celebre mito di Tristano e Isotta dalle sue antiche origini celtiche, alla sua ricezione nelle diverse tradizioni europee medievali.
Una particolare attenzione è riservata alla sua ricezione nel cosiddetto ramo cortese, il cui testo di riferimento fu redatto da Thomas of Brittany in anglo-normanno, il quale inspirò la produzione delle versioni in medio inglese, medio alto-tedesco e norreno.
Proprio la poco esplorata traduzione medio-inglese rappresenta il fulcro del mio studio, poiché tramite il confronto fra quest’ultima e il suo source text anglo-normanno emerge come ogni traduzione produca una versione differente di un testo arricchendolo di elementi propri per soddisfare il gusto del pubblico a cui sono rivolti.
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Kynan-Wilson, William. "Rome and romanitas in Anglo-Norman text and image (circa 1100 - circa 1250)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607802.
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Connors, Owain James. "The effects of Anglo-Norman lordship upon the landscape of post-Conquest Monmouthshire." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/14641.
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This thesis examines the effects the imposition of Anglo-Norman lordship, following the Anglo-Norman expansion into Wales in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, had upon the landscape of the Welsh border region. In order to achieve this aim this project makes extensive use of digital Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in order to produce a detailed county-wide study of the landscape of post-Conquest Monmouthshire as well as comprehensive case studies of individual Anglo-Norman lordships contained within the boundaries of the county. This thesis also aims to locate its findings within important current debates in historic archaeology about the effects of medieval lordship upon the landscape, on the roles of the physical environment and human agency in the forming of the historic landscape, on the wider role of castles as lordship centres, beyond simple military functionality.
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Damian-Grint, Peter Benedict. "Vernacular history in the making : Anglo-Norman verse historiography in the twelfth century." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339442.
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The first significant form of vernacular historiography in French, the verse estoire, was produced in the Anglo-Norman regnum between c. 1135 and the early years of the thirteenth century. Despite its importance, this genre (comprising at least fourteen texts and forming a corpus of over '/a million verse lines) has largely been ignored in studies of the vernacular literature of the period. After a general survey of twelfth-century attitudes to history, and a more detailed overview of Latin and vernacular historiography in the Anglo-Norman regnum during the twelfth century, this study delineates the corpus of verse estoires. Taking as a starting-point the acknowledged `self-conscious' authorial presentation common to much medieval literature, the study then examines the whole of the estoire corpus from the viewpoint of authorial self-consciousness and self-presentation within the text. This authorial persona is examined in three main areas: firstly, authorial self-presentation and presentation of the nature of historiography in prologues and epilogues; secondly, direct authorial intervention in the narrative, in particular the `authorising' interventions (references to sources and assertions of speaking the truth) characteristic of historiography; and thirdly, the terminology chosen by historiographical authors to refer to their works and their source materials. Particular attention is paid to the three most commonly used terms, estoire, geste, and livre. These aspects of authorial self-presentation are placed within the context of the social and literary factors influencing the appearance of the different types of verse estoire in twelfth-century Britain. From this, the study attempts to give a practical working definition of the verse estoire, and suggests reasons for the appearance and the disappearance of the genre. Finally, the verse estoire is placed within its wider literary context, and an analysis is offered of its role in relation to the development of other major literary forms of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The study closes with three appendices, comprising transcriptions of two previously unavailable verse estoire fragments, together with a list of all examples of authorial interventions and uses of historiographical terminology in the texts of the corpus.
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Richardson, Kay Marie. "Anglo-Norman defence strategy in selected English border and maritime counties, 1066-1087." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5424.
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Cowan, Kimberly R. "Defining the castle through twelfth-century chronicle perceptions in the Anglo-Norman regnum." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b5a7b0d1-0ff7-4a7f-85b3-97b3236a1bcd.
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The medieval castle is one of the most popular topics in medieval historiography and interest in this structure has institutionalized it in modern medieval scholarship. Unfortunately, this does not mean that modern historians understand it. The problem lies in the narrow and isolationist definition used by many scholars who see it as simply a fortified private residence representing and defending power. This thesis will demonstrate that the castle’s contemporaries understood it as an identifiable and distinguishable structure and symbol with a singular yet multi-dimensional characteristics as a fortified, personal, and multifunctional resource. The twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm has been chosen as a focus for this thesis because of the specific differences between the reigns of Henry I, Stephen, and Henry II. This period, particularly the nineteen years of Stephen’s reign, experienced significant castle warfare, which provides a great deal of material for this study. In chapters 1-3, each of the above characteristics and their corresponding details will be analysed individually. In chapter 4, three case studies will be presented to demonstrate how these independent characteristics were perceived of as acting simultaneously. Chapter 5 will compare perceptions of castles to other medieval buildings. Finally, chapter 6 will test the definition’s legitimacy by applying it beyond the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. This dissertation will demonstrate that there was a contemporary understanding of the castle which encompassed its fortified nature, its personal possession, and its multifunctional resourcefulness. If we are to understand this phenomenon as its contemporaries did, then we need to alter our modern definition and expand our understanding in order to come to a truer and more complete appreciation of this essential resource in the Middle Ages.
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Strevett, Neil. "The Anglo-Norman aristocracy under divided Lordship, 1087-1106 : a social and political study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2441/.
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This thesis examines the political and social responses of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy between 1087 and 1106 to the issue of divided lordship. The central theme is the importance of the concept of political legitimacy in shaping the political culture and actions of the aristocracy during this period. The exclusion of significant sections of the cross-Channel aristocracy from the consultation process in selecting a king in 1087 and 1100, ran contrary to the accepted political norms and created doubts over the legitimacy of Rufus’ and Henry I’s regimes that could be revived at moments of crisis. This found expression in the support given to Robert Curthose’s challenge for the English throne in 1088 and 1101, but also in open rebellion in 1095. However, the limitations of violence as a means of effecting long-term change necessitated a search for a negotiated political settlement that would open the way for Normandy and England to enjoy co-existence as a permanent solution to the problem of divided lordship. This approach locates the Anglo-Norman aristocracy firmly within the recent scholarship of the early and late medieval aristocracy, where political discourse is analysed primarily in terms of succession and legitimacy. Therefore, at the centre of this analysis are the contemporary and near-contemporary narrative sources, which display a firm understanding of contemporary theories of kingship and the politics. When brought into focus with charter evidence, specific aspects of the wider socio-political culture of the aristocracy, in particular religious patronage, marital strategies and inheritance patterns, can then be read as both responses to the wider question of the succession, and also as a commentary on contemporary politics.
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Robertson, Abigail G. "The Mechanics of Courtly and the Mechanization of Woman in Medieval Anglo-Norman Romance." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1415804460.
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Fradley, Michael George. "The old in the new : urban castle imposition in Anglo-Norman England, AD 1050-1150." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3248.
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In the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of the kingdom of England in the late eleventh century a series of castle structures were imposed on the fabric of a large number of Late Saxon towns. In the late 1980s this specific group of castles were archaeologically termed ‘urban castles’, being perceived as distinct from other forms of such structures encountered in the UK. The interpretation of these castles, whose design is widely accepted as being imported in this period from northern France, is closely entwined with culturally and nationalistically-loaded historical narrative of the Norman Conquest. This interpretive position has had a dominant role in how the urban castle is studied in historical and archaeological discourse, which in turn reinforces the validity and legitimacy of this approach. The present study will seek to question the rationale and evidence behind the present interpretive framework. This will include a historiographical analysis of the development of the study of Late Saxon and Norman England over the last century and how the conditions of research in this period has influenced and often proved divisive in how the urban castle is understood and encapsulated within perceptions of radical change in English history. In turn it will offer an alternative, interdisciplinary approach to the encounter and interpretation of the urban castle. Detailed examinations of the urban castles and settlements of Wallingford (Oxon.) and Huntingdon (Cambs.) will be followed by broader, regional studies of Sussex and the Severn Vale. The castles in these examples will be studied in the wider context of urban development across the period c.AD900-1150 which will allow them to be considered as one element amongst a hetregenous, fluid process of settlement evolution. This original methodology will be utilised to demonstrate how these sites can be used as a subject for understanding the wider phenomenon of Saxo-Norman urbanism, and that the castle is an integral, if physically distinct, element in this process.
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Castles, Nicola Jane. "The transmission of classical and patristic texts in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2785.
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This thesis consists of a general introduction to the historical and palaeographical background to the subject of the transmission of Classical and Patristic texts in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England, followed by five chapters each dealing with a classical or patristic author. Each chapter lists the information we have available on manuscripts containing the author's work, and conclusions are drawn as to the transmission of that work. In the case of five texts, Persius, Satirae; Augustine, Enchiridion; Gregory, Cura pastoralis and Moralia and Isidore, Synonymar portions of each MS are taken and compared in detail with each other and with the modern printed edition, and a stemma is constructed on the basis of evidence thus obtained. A conclusion draws together the information on the transmission of such manuscripts throughout the eighth to twelfth centuries. There are two appendices: the first contains brief notes on texts by Classical and Patristic authors of which there are not enough copies to form stemmata, while the second takes the form of a short analysis of the use of the letter k in the margins of some insular MSS studied. There are also indices nominum et manuscriptorum. The work is divided into two volumes after Chapter Three.
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Tiddeman, Megan. "Money talks : Anglo-Norman, Italian and English language contact in medieval merchant documents, c1200-c1450." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/6a2ed39e-68e7-4eb6-bdb5-c08658ee4a92.
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Current evidence for Anglo-Italian contact prior to 1500 is very rare and the major historical dictionaries contain only a handful of borrowings in either direction. This is in stark contrast to the huge amounts of evidence gathered for language contact between Continental French and Italian prior to 1500 and between English and Italian from 1500 onwards. However, Italians permeated many levels of English medieval society, including the top echelons of the royal Wardrobe and government Mints, London livery companies, wool-producing estate from the Cotswolds to Yorkshire and communities in major ports, such as Southampton. Given this role played by Tuscans, Venetians and the Genoese in the trade and finance of England in the later Middle Ages, conditions were ripe for a large-scale exchange of technical lexis. The thesis demonstrates that borrowing from and into Italian dialects occurred directly on English soil and that Anglo-Norman frequently played an important role in transmission, leading us to re-examine traditional assumptions about the agency of Continental French in the transfer of Italian vocabulary into Middle English. We also reanalyse the stance taken by Italian scholars which (even today) overlooks Anglo-Norman’s place at the centre of medieval English administration; this has led to studies on the earliest loanwords in Italian from England focusing solely on potential etyma from Middle English or Continental French. This project collates a glossary of 140 probable loanwords found in dictionaries and databases, as well as unpublished material from UK and Italian archives. These trade-related texts, dating from the 1200s to the 1400s, include Exchequer documents, port books, accounts, wills, letters, contracts and inventories and offer evidence of reciprocal influence in the professional vocabularies of English and Italian merchants. Certain semantic fields emerge as of particular relevance, such as (from Italian) luxury textiles, sugar, spices, shipping and financial terminology; (into Italian) English administrative and legal lexis, profession names, units of measurement, wool and woollen cloths. Whilst statistical analysis is restrained by the small amount of data collected, we do see a peak period of language contact over the years 1300-1450: the period in which Italian influence on the medieval English economy was at its strongest. Key sources include Bradley's recent edition of the Anglo-Norman Views of the Hosts of Alien Merchants (1440-44), a collection of bureaucratic documents testifying to the first official attempt by an English government to register immigrant workers. We also examine the London account books of the Gallerani of Siena (1305-08) and the Salviati of Florence (1448-51) which offer valuable insight into the multilingual environment of these alien merchants, whose native Tuscan mingled with the already trilingual business lexis of the English capital. Finally, a full transcription and analysis is provided of the extraordinary multilingual writing of an Englishman overseeing a large wool shipment in Tuscany (1450-51): the Cantelowe Accounts. The author, John Balmayn, employs a (so far) unique mixed-language business code, combining Italian, Middle English, Latin and Anglo-Norman, as well as a near-modern use of Arabic numerals that is many decades ahead of his contemporaries back in London. Until quite recently, non-literary material of this type has been largely overlooked by historical linguists in the UK and the effects of a foreign language, such as Italian, on the trilingual bureaucracy of English trade have not yet been examined. Overall, the thesis aims to emphasize the value of such sources and highlight the linguistic legacy of the Italian merchant presence in late medieval England.
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Ross, Nancy Lyn. "Forgotten revelation : the iconographic development of the Anglo-Norman verse and early prose Apocalypse manuscripts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612978.
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Strickland, Matthew James. "The conduct and perception of war under the Anglo-Norman and Angevin kings, 1075-1217." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272192.
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Meddings, John P. "Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1998. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/505/.
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Three groups are examined: the family, followers and friends. The structure,functions and tensions of these groups are described and their dynamics analysed in the fields of decision making and conflict resolution. The approach offers a dialectic between Latin and French sources, historical and literary, and social science theories. This opens up new avenues for analysis and allows a holistic description of medieval politics and society. The family comprised parents and their children. Within this small unit affection was very strong; outside, it quickly declined. Although uncles and nephews had political links there was considerably less emotional attachment between them than between parent-child and sibling relationships. Three types of follower are examined: household retainers, enfeoffed tenants and 'neighbours'. Household knights had the strongest emotional bonds to their lord and were seen as the most loyal. Tenants who performed homage were called `men'; 'vassal' is shown to mean 'good follower'. An aristocrat exercised considerable control within his lands and beyond them he maintained some power. In these areas people may have obeyed his will without having any direct link with him. Such people were often called 'neighbours'. Informal influences such as love and fear are shown to have more force than the formal bonds created through homage and oaths. Concepts of 'treason' and 'defiance' are also examined. Five types of friendship are identified: friendship as courtesy, formal friendship, emotional friendship, company and companionship. Calling someone 'friend' was a sign of politeness. Political agreements, often termed covenants, created formal bonds of friendship. A new methodology for investigating emotional friendship is proposed. Groups with a strong identity were called companies. Companionship was a close bond, usually between two men, that combined elements of formal and emotional friendship. This description of the socio-political dynamics of the aristocracy offers an alternative to earlier models and greatly enhances our understanding of Anglo-Norman politics and society.
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Dargan, Pat. "Conquest and urban consolidation : an investigation into plan development and burgage patterns in Anglo-Norman Ireland." Thesis, University of East London, 1996. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1280/.
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During the twelfth and thirteenth-centuries, Ireland experienced a large-scale urbanization movement, initiated as part of the Anglo-Norman conquest and colonization of the island. As part of this process, old settlements were re-modelled and promoted; and an extensive network of new towns were planted across the Irish medieval landscape. This dissertation examines the development of this colonial urbanization movement with particular reference to the urban planning aspects of the process. Volume I, considers the origins, influences, and ideals of the Anglo-Norman town builders, as well as the morphogenetic, spatial and distributive characteristics of their endeavors. In addition, the current level of scholarship on the subject is highlighted and discussed. Volume II, focuses on a series of typical Anglo-Norman town foundations, where the origins, plan and burgage development patterns are explored in depth, through the techniques of plan and metrological analysis.
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Fairbairn, Henry. "The nature and limits of the money economy in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-nature-and-limits-of-the-money-economy-in-late-anglosaxon-and-early-norman-england(d49eb1c0-8bd7-4c72-8aab-917a60137c8e).html.
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This thesis will address a question which is fundamental to our understanding of the period: was there a money economy in Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England? This question has been asked often enough before, but currently the literature does not afford a satisfactory answer, principally because the relevant historical and numismatic evidence has never been systematically assembled and analysed. The object of my research will be to make good this gap. It will seek to establish how, by whom, and in what circumstances coins were − and were not − used in England between the reigns of King Athelstan and King Henry I (924−1135). The thesis will build on substantial secondary literature on the early English economy. However, what this literature lacks is a comprehensive analysis of the documentary evidence which reveals how money was actually used and what it could and could not buy. One major strand of this thesis will be to examine this material systematically to demonstrate the value of monetary equivalents and small-scale transactions in the period before 1135. Secondly, there is abundant numismatic material in the form of single coin finds and coin hoards, which affords more specific evidence of how money was actually used. The other major element of my thesis will therefore be to assemble,collate and analyse this material, in order to facilitate more precise and penetrating analysis of such finds. The combination of approaches proposed here will make possible to form a more precise understanding of how money was used throughout the social spectrum of English society, from the peasantry to the upper ranks of the nobility, throughout a period of momentous political change.
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French, Michael. "The image of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England c.1070-1130." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6921.
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This thesis explores the depiction of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England between c.1070 and 1130. It examines the way in which contemporaries wrote about churchmen who were engaged in restoring the English Church, particularly the actions which were attributed to them. While a great deal has been written about ideas of Church reform from the time, little has been done to set out who might actually be considered a restorer. Narrative sources offer a window through which to assess the themes which most concerned writers of the time. The thesis focuses upon chronicles and saints' Lives to delve into these themes, as it seeks to identify the criteria by which writers assessed churchmen who attempted to restore the Church. Certain common trends will be identified. However, it will also be argued that different contexts and commentators honed the image of the restorer so that the needs of communities and their particular members shaped ideas of the figures under discussion. The examination is split between four chapters, each addressing an important aspect in the depiction of the restorer. Chapter One looks at the importance of material restoration, through the recovery of lost lands and the rebuilding of churches. Chapter Two looks at how writers depicted restorers correcting morals in England and improving monastic customs, particularly saints' cults. Chapter Three explores the notion of ‘right order' and how it was important for churchmen to ensure that the correct hierarchy was restored. The fourth and final chapter examines the personal characteristics expected of a restorer, such as industry, prudence and learning, as well as descriptions of saintly restorers. Finally, the conclusion tests its findings against writing from different times and places, namely other European writing from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries and tenth-century England.
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Ford, Burley Richard. "The Remix as a Hermeneutic for the Interpretation of Early Insular Texts." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108105.
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Thesis advisor: Robert StantonThis dissertation introduces the remix as an interpretive framework for the analysis of medieval texts and demonstrates its value as a new approach to understanding even well-studied texts. Breaking the process of remixing down into three composite processes—aggregation, compilation, and renarration—allows the reader to examine a given text as the cumulative effect of a series of actions taken by known or unknown remixers. Doing so in turn allows for new readings based on previously un- or under-explored alterations, completions, and juxtapositions present within the text or its physical or generic contexts, or embedded within its processes of textual production. This dissertation presents four case studies that show the usefulness of this approach in regard to (1) the physical and textual construction of the Junius manuscript; (2) the conventions of the ‘encomium urbis’ genre and the meaning of ‘home’ in Old English poetry; (3) King Leir narratives and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as forms of history writing; and (4) various contextualizations of Grendel, the antagonist from the poem Beowulf
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Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Lahbib, Franck. "Edition et traduction du manuscrit F de Gui de Warewic : un roman anglo-normand de la fin du XIIe siècle." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30033.
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Composé à la fin du XIIesiècle, le roman anglo-normand Gui de Warewic raconte latransformation morale du héros. Tombé amoureux de la fille de son seigneur, Gui est contraintde partir à l’aventure pour acquérir au combat la renommée et ainsi satisfaire aux exigencesde l’orgueilleuse Félice, qui redoute une mésalliance. Mais, une fois marié, il la quitte etdécide de se mettre au service de Dieu pour expier les péchés qu’il a commis pour la séduireet la conquérir. Ce roman lignager, en imposant un idéal clérical dans la tradition deshagiographies et de la pensée de Bernard de Clairvaux, dénonce les codes de la chevalerieféodale et de la courtoisie. Nous nous proposons d’éditer et de traduire le manuscrit F de ceroman que possède la Fondation Martin Bodmer située à Cologny (Genève). L’étude de lalangue montre que le texte présente de nombreuses caractéristiques propres au dialecte anglonormand.Quant aux sources du texte, nombreuses et variées comme bien souvent dans lalittérature médiévale, elles révèlent que l’auteur s’est inspiré de romans historiques et antiquespour créer un personnage en mesure de légitimer la présence de l’aristocratie locale anglonormandedont il dépendait, et de consolider son identité. Nous donnons aussi une nouvelledate de composition du romanComposed in the late twelfth century, the Anglo-Norman romance Guy of Warwick tells themoral transformation of the hero. Having fallen in love with the daughter of his lord, Gui isforced to go on an adventure to acquire fame in combat and thus meet the requirements of theproud Felice who dreads a misalliance. But once married, he leaves her and decides to serveGod to attone for the sins he has committed to seduce and conquer her. This ancestralromance, by imposing a clerical ideal in the tradition of hagiographies as well as the thoughtof Bernard de Clairvaux, denounces feudal chivalry and codes of courtesy. We intend to editand translate the manuscript F of this novel that the Martin Bodmer Foundation possesses,located in Cologny (Geneva). A study of the language shows that the text has many uniquecharacteristics of Anglo-Norman dialect. As for the sources of the text, many and varied as isoften the case in medieval literature, they reveal that the author was inspired by historical andancient novels to create a character able to legitimize the presence of the local Normanaristocracy on which it depended, and to consolidate its identity. We also give a new date ofcomposition of the novel
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Dolmans, Emily. "Regional identities and cultural contact in the literatures of post-conquest England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a791675-9c4e-422b-ba8e-34d3d2eda0e9.
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This thesis explores the geographic complexity of English identity in the High Middle Ages by examining texts that reflect moments and spaces of cultural contact. While interaction with a cultural Other is often thought to reinforce national identity, I challenge this notion, positing instead that, in the texts analysed here, cultural meetings prompt the formation or consolidation of regional identities. These identities are often simultaneously local and cross-cultural, inclusive but based in community ties and a shared sense of place. Each of the four chapters examines a different kind of regional identity and its relation to Englishness through romances and historiographical texts in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English. Discussion primarily focuses on the Gesta Herwardi, Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, Gui de Warewic, Boeve de Haumtone, Le roman de toute chevalerie, and Richard Coer de Lyon. Each of these texts negotiates English identity in relation to a cultural Other, and balances various aspects of cultural identity and scales of geographic affiliation. While some focus exclusively on a particular locality, others create inclusive regional identities, draw together the foreign and the familiar, or depict England as a region on the edge of an interconnected world. These texts show that Englishness can carry different meanings, nuances, and identitary strategies that depend on context, location, or ideology. Together, they forge an image of England that is diverse and multinucleated. Its borders become spaces of meeting, connection, and cultural overlap, as well as division. These works establish a strong English identity while articulating England's necessary relationship with other places, spaces, and peoples, challenging not the borders of England, but the borders of Englishness.
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Cengel, Abigail. "Living Links: The Role of Marriage between Welsh and Anglo-Norman Aristocratic Families in the Welsh Struggle for Autonomy, 1066-1283." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1337875222.
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Cownie, Emma. "The religious patronage of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy in England : with special reference to the old English monasteries, 1066-1135." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534701.
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Mills, Matthew. "Behold your mother : the Virgin Mary in English monasticism, c. 1050-c. 1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c72df193-cdbe-4fc1-b59f-714015846599.
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This thesis examines the place of the Virgin Mary in the intellectual culture of Benedictine and Cistercian monasticism in medieval England, between c. 1050 and c. 1200. Drawing high profile thinkers, including Anselm of Canterbury (d. 1109), into dialogue with lesser known figures, it reveals the richness of monastic contributions to Marian doctrine and devotion, in many cases for the first time. The shape of the analysis is provided by five key 'moments' from Mary's life, unfolded consecutively across six chapters. Chapters 1 and 2, on Mary's conception, reveal a confident and pioneering monastic culture which drove the evolution of an obscure Anglo-Saxon feast into a theological doctrine, despite fierce opposition at home and abroad. Chapter 3 explains how Mary's virginity was adopted as a blueprint for the monastic life by Ælred of Rievaulx (d. 1167) and Baldwin of Forde (d. 1190), both of whom were inspired by its fruitfulness in the Incarnation of Christ. Chapter 4 brings to light the contributions made to exegesis of the Song of Songs as a poem about Mary's humility by the mysterious Honorius Augustodunensis (d. 1140) and John of Forde (d. 1214). Chapter 5, on the divine maternity, demonstrates how English monastic theologians gave new life to understanding of Mary as Theotokos ('God-bearer') by drawing out its significance for their own spiritual maternity as leaders of religious communities. Chapter 6 shows how Mary was believed to have entered into the pain of the Crucifixion through her own spiritual martyrdom, and how monks sought to share the experience with her by a communion of charity. These and other insights offer a compelling glimpse into the culture of English monasticism between the demise of the Anglo-Saxons and the advent of the friars. Inspired by a desire to understand and ultimately to know Mary, Benedictine and Cistercian monks produced theological and spiritual works which were imaginative, often intimate and occasionally pioneering. Most of all, they were profoundly pastoral, composed in the belief that Mary could inspire and support those who had embarked upon the monastic via perfectionis.
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Harris, Eilidh. "Depictions of sainthood in the Latin saints' lives of twelfth-century England." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6315.
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This thesis examines the depiction of saintly figures within the Latin vitae of twelfth-century England (1066–c.1215). It tests the extent to which these depictions are homogeneous and examines what factors may have shaped representations. Analysis focuses on vitae of twelfth-century saints, a sample of texts that have not previously been examined as a corpus in this way. By encompassing a range of different types of saint, authors and contexts, utilising this corpus allows a comparative examination of how different facets of sainthood could be expressed in hagiography. The textual analysis at the heart of this study aims to unpick individual texts' ideals of saintly behaviour. Whilst hagiographers functioned within a well-established genre, considering a wide range of saints' vitae allows scrutiny of the impact of context in shaping depictions. It will be argued that these portrayals of saintly figures demonstrate thematic harmony which is tempered by individuality and context to form recognisable and yet distinctive depictions of sainthood. The analysis is structured around four common hagiographical themes, each worthy of detailed examination: Outer Appearance, Sexuality and Chastity, Food and Fasting, and Death. Chapter 1 investigates how saintly figures are described in terms of physical appearance, deportment and demeanour, and clothing. Chapter 2 focuses upon sexuality, exploring the manifestations of chastity and virginity within the Lives and testing how this might vary from saint to saint and between the sexes. Chapter 3 examines food and food abstention, previously under-represented in secondary literature on twelfth-century hagiography and on male saints. The thesis ends with a consideration of death, a surprisingly understudied theme in Anglophone scholarship. By examining the process of dying and the moment of mortality, this chapter will fill an important analytical vacuum between lived sanctity and sanctity in death.
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Unruh, Dwane F. "A comparison between the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic and the Middle English version contained in Caius College, Cambridge, MS. 107." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4569.
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McManama-Kearin, Lisa Karen. "The use of GIS in determining the role of visibility in the siting of early Anglo-Norman stone castles in Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534618.
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