Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy

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• 1. Military intelligence under the Norman and Angevin kings John Prestwich; 2. 1066 and the introduction of chivalry into England John Gillingham; 3. Against the Lord's Anointed: aspects of warfare and baronial rebellion in England and Normandy, 1075–1265 Matthew Strickland; 4. 'Ducal' succession in early Normandy George Garnett; 5. Quadripartitus Patrick Wormald; 6. The discourse of inheritance in twelfth-century France: alternative models of the fief in Raoul de Cambrai Stephen D. White; 7. Anglo-Norman land law and the origins of property John Hudson; 8. The origin of prerogative wardship S. F. C. Milsom; 9. Possessio/proprietas in ecclesiastical courts in mid-twelfth-century England Mary Cheney; 10. The sheriffs of Henry II and the significance of 1170 Julia Boorman; 11. The charters of the Empress Matilda Marjorie Chibnall; 12. A Norman conventio and bonds of lordship in the Middle Ages David Crouch; 13. The archbishopric of York and the extent of the forest in Nottinghamshire in the twelfth century David Crook; 14. Archdeacons and parish churches in England in the twelfth century Brian Kemp; A bibliography of the published writings of Sir James Holt Barbara Dodwell; Index.