History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent, 1000-1200

E.M.C. van Houts, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK

Contents: Norman literary links: Normandy and Byzantium in the eleventh century; Scandinavian influence in Norman literature of the eleventh century; A note on Jezebel and Semiramis, two Latin Norman poems from the early eleventh century; The date of Warner of Rouen’s Moriuht; Historiography and hagiography at Saint-Wandrille: the Inventio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni; Anglo-continental prose texts: The political relations between Normandy and England before 1066 according to the Gesta Normannorum ducum; The Ship list of William the Conqueror; The Brevis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comite Normannorum written by a monk of Battle Abbey, edited [and translated] with an historical commentary; The Norman conquest through European eyes; Latin and vernacular Anglo-Norman poetry: Latin poetry and the Anglo-Norman court 1066-1135: the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio; Wace as historian; The adaptation of the Gesta Normannorum Ducum by Wace and Benoît; History, family and women: Robert of Torigni as genealogist; The state of research: women in medieval history and literature; Women and the writing of history in the early Middle Ages: the case of Abbess Matilda of Essen and Aethelweard; Orality in Norman hagiography of the XIth and XIIth centuries: the value of female testimonies; Index.