People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Norman Worlds of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
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Synopsis
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.
Chapters
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IntroductionDavid Bates and Elisabeth van Houts
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1. Harness pendants and the rise of armoryJohn Baker
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2. The transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c.1050–c.1250Elma Brenner
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3. Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo’s De Balneis Puteolanis: new hypothesesTeofilo De Angelis
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4. A Latin school in the Norman principality of AntiochEdoardo D’Angelo
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5. Culti e agiografie d’età normanna in Italia meridionaleAmalia Galdi
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6. The landscape of Anglo-Norman England: chronology and cultural transmissionRobert Liddiard
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7. The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, CavaG. A. Loud
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8. Écrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et de Geoffroi MalaterraMarie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel
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9. Bede’s legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of HuntingdonAlheydis Plassmann
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10. The transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth centuryDaniel Power
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11. Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050–1150Patricia Skinner
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12. Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century NormandyAlice Taylor
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13. Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of SicilyMario Rosario Zecchino
