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Bayeux Tapestry; Bishops of Winchester and the Monastic Revolution; Charters of Henry II; Early Irish Castles; Land and Inheritance in England; Life of St Margaret; Mont St Michel 966-1035; Sake and Soke, Titles, and Tenants-in-Chief; Shaftesbury Abbey's Benefactors; 12c Anglo-Scottish Warfare; Benoit of St Maure and William; Southwell Tympanum, Glastonbury Respond, Leigh Christ; Inventio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni. C. HOLDSWORTH, S. BROWN, K. COOKE, M. FRANKLIN, J. HUDSON, L. HUNEYCUTT, T. McNEILL; R. MORTIMER, C. POTTS, D. ROFFE, M. STRICKLAND, H. B. TEUNIS, P. TUDOR-CRAIG, E. VAN HOUTS. 34 plates, figs.

Table of Contents

Allen Brown - a memoir, Christopher Holdsworth; the Bayeux tapestry - why Eustace of Boulogne?, Shirley Ann Brown; et al; donors and daughters - Shaftesbury Abbey's benefactors, endowments and nuns c.1086-1139, Kathleen Cooke; the Bishops of Winchester and the monastic revolution, Michael Franklin; life grants and the development of inheritance in post-conquest England, John Hudson; the idea of a perfect princess - the "Vita" of St.Margaret in the reign of Queen Edith Matilda, Lois Huneycutt; great towers in Irish castles, c.1175-1225, T.E.McNeill; the charters of Henry II - the criteria for authenticity, Richard Mortimer; Normandy or Brittany? a conflict of interests at Mont-Saint-Michel (966-1035), Cassandra Potts; sake and soke - title and tenants-in-chief in 1086, David Roffe; securing the north - invasion and the strategy of defence in 12th-century Anglo-Scottish warfare, Matthew Strickland; Benoit of St. Maure and William the Conqueror's "Amor", H.B.Teunis; controversial sculptures - the Southwell Tympanum - the Glastonbury respond - the Leigh Christ, Pamela Tudor-Craig; historiography and hagiography at Saint-Wandrille - the "invetio et miracula Sancti Wulfranni", Elizabeth Van Houts.

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