People, Texts and Artefacts: Cultural Transmission in the Norman Worlds of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
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.
This collection 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.
Published as part of the IHR Conference Series by the Institute of Historical Research.
Chapters
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Introduction
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1. Harness pendants and the rise of armory
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2. The transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c.1050–c.1250
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3. Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo’s De Balneis Puteolanis: new hypotheses
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4. A Latin school in the Norman principality of Antioch
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5. Culti e agiografie d’età normanna in Italia meridionale
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6. The landscape of Anglo-Norman England: chronology and cultural transmission
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7. The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava
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8. Écrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et de Geoffroi Malaterra
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9. Bede’s legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon
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10. The transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth century
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11. Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050–1150
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12. Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century Normandy
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13. Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of Sicily
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