Anglo-Norman Political Culture and the Twelfth Century Renaissance

David Crouch is a fellow of the British Academy and author of a number of editions of medieval documents, most recently The Acts and Letters of the Marshal Family (2015) for the Camden Society. He has written extensively on medieval politics and society, and was also editor of Volume 10 (Howden and Howdenshire) of the Victoria History of Yorkshire East Riding.

Launches Anglo-Norman history in several valuable new directions.

• - - - Introduction - C Warren HollisterAnglo-Norman political culture and the twelfth-century renaissance - C Warren HollisterWhen the saints go marching: religious connections and the political culture of early Normandy - Cassandra Potts HannahsKingship, chivalry and love. Political and cultural values in the earliest history written in French: Geoffrey Gaimar's Estoire des EngleisEngleis - John B GillinghamAristocratic women in early twelfth-century England - Judith GreenChrist Church Canterbury's Anglo-Norman cartulary - Robin FlemingThe culture of death in the Anglo-Norman world - David Crouch