Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII - 9780851156668

Anglo-Norman Studies XVIIIProceedings of the Battle Conference 1995\nAuthor(s): Christopher Harper-Bill, Cassandra Potts Hannahs, D Greenway, David Luscombe, Hiro Tsurushima, Ian Short, Joanna Drell, Kathleen Thompson, Peter Damian-Grint, R Bearman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9780851156668, 978-0851156668\nSynopsis\nLatest volume in leading forum for research on the Anglo-Norman world.\n\nThis most recent volume of papers contains the usual wide range of papers and topics. The Memorial lecture concerns St Anselm, a personality particularly dear to R. Allen Brown. There is a particular emphasis on the writing of history, with papers on regional identity in early Normandy, Henry of Huntingdon, the Anglo-Norman Estoire and the definition of racial identity in post-Conquest England; other topics include language in a colonial society, Anglo-Norman aristocracy (with studies ofindividual families), and the hisA