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The Wages of Sin: Kinship and Forgiveness in the ‘Herlechin’s Hunt’ of Orderic Vitalis

Medievalists.net — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 15:30:21 +0000

In Book VIII of this lengthy chronicle of Norman affairs, Orderic paused in his description of the political struggles between the sons of William the Conqueror to tell a ghost story.

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Mirrors for Princes: Henry II and the Succession to the Angevin Empire

Medievalists.net — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:55:18 +0000

Understandably, with so many 'devilish' offspring, Henry II faced many difficulties when it came to bringing up his sons, including the problem of how to successfully integrate them into the rule of the Angevin Empire.

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Enemy and Ancestor: Viking Identities and Ethnic Boundaries in England and Normandy, c.950 – c.1015

Medievalists.net — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:14:42 +0000

This thesis is a comparison of ethnicity in Viking Age England and Normandy. It focuses on the period c.950-c.1015, which begins several generations after the initial Scandinavian settlements in both regions.

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The Vikings in Normandy and Brittany

Medievalists.net — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:01:06 +0000

Dr David Petts (Durham University) tells us about his research in northern France: an area in which we know the Vikings to be elusive

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The Childhood of William the Conqueror

Medievalists.net — Wed, 28 May 2014 22:35:10 +0000

Duke Robert died when William was seven leaving him to rely on other men to rule his duchy until he came of age. These years were fraught with peril.

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Vikings in France and England

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:08:21 +0000

Danielle Turner juxtaposes Viking raiding and settlement in medieval France and England to answer the question why Normandy (on the French side) became a major player in the medieval world, while the Danelaw (on the English side) did not.

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Lords Of The North Sea: A Comparative Study Of Aristocratic Territory In The North Sea World In The Tenth And Eleventh Centuries

Medievalists.net — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:32:58 +0000

The paper is a comparative study on the aristocrats of eastern England, eastern Normandy, western Flanders and central Norway.

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The Normans are an Unconquerable People: Orderic Vitalis’s Memory of the Anglo-Norman Regnum during the Reigns of William Rufus and Henry I, 1087-1106

Medievalists.net — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 01:20:16 +0000

This essay examines Orderic’s portrayal of the three sons of William the Conqueror, as well as one member of the Anglo-Norman high aristocracy, in an effort to understand how and why his Historia Ecclesiastica recreates the nineteen-year period between the death of William the Conqueror and the ascension of Henry I as an age of violence, poor lordship, and ambiguous gender roles.

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Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry identified

Medievalists.net — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:44:37 +0000

The Bayeux Tapestry was designed by Scolland, Abbot of St.Augustine's monastery in Canterbury, according to research by Howard Clarke of University College, Dublin.

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The Medieval Walking Dead

Medievalists.net — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:54:28 +0000

On January 1, 1091, an army of the dead came to Normandy. For one priest, it would be a night that he would never forget.

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