Anglo-Norman Studies XXVII

G.A. LOUD Is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Leeds. He is an acknowledged authority on the Normans in the south, and more generally on southern Italy during the Central Middle Ages. JÖRG PELTZER is Professor of Comparative Regional History in a European Perspective at Heidelberg University.

• Probing the Passions of a Norman on Crusade: the Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum - Emily AlbuGilbert Foliot et l'Ecriture, un exégète en politique - Julie BarrauWriting Warfare, Lordship and History: the Gesta Consulum Andegavorum's Account of the Battle of Alençon - Richard E BartonAnglo-French Peace Conferences in the Twelfth Century - Jenny BenhamPeter of Blois and the Problem of the `Court' in the Late Twelfth Century - John CottsNormandy and Norman Identity in Southern Italian Chronicles - Ewan JohnsonMonastic Chronicles in the Twelth-Century Abruzzi - Graham A LoudThe Impact of the Rebellion on Little Domesday - Lucy MartenSetting Things Straight: Law, Justice and Ethics in the Orationes of Lawrence of Durham - Mia Münster-SwendsenThe Angevin Kings and Canon Law: Episcopal Elections and the Loss of Normandy - Jörg PeltzerZooarchaeology of the Norman Conquest - Naomi SykesWas Thomas Becket Chaste? Understanding Episodes in the Becket Lives - Hanna Vollrath

Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old arguments, new material, new angles. [...]As usual, every Anglo-Normanist will find something of interest in this volume.