Table of Contents

R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture: The Norman Conquest and the Media - Richard Barber
Dudo of St Quentin and Norman Military Strategy ca. 1000 - Bernard S Bachrach
Clergy in the diocese of Hereford in the eleventh and twelfth centuries - Julia Barrow
England and the Irish-Sea Zone in the Eleventh Century - Clare Downham
Les abbés bénédictins de la Normandie ducale - Véronique Gazeau
The Vita AEdwardi Regis The Hagiographer as Insider - John Grassi
The Warenne View of the Past, 1066-1203 - Elisabeth M C van Houts
Textual Communities in the English Fenlands: A Lay Audience for Monastic Chronicles? - Jennifer Paxton
1088-William II and the Rebels - Richard Sharpe
The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered - Neil Strevett
Epic and Romance in the Chronicles of Anjou - Neil Wright

About the Author

Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages. Richard Sharpe FBA (1954-2020) Professor of Diplomatic in the University of Oxford, and President of the Surtees Society from 2002, was one of Britain's most eminent manuscript scholars with over 200 publications before he died. He left unfinished his study of the early deeds of the great Benedictine abbey of St Mary in York, which has been completed in his memory by the society.