Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Editor's Note
- Abbreviations
- 1 Francia and the History of Medieval Europe
- 2 Royal Control and the Disposition of Estates in Tenth-Century England: Reflections on the Charters of King Eadwig (955–959)
- 3 Denis Bethell Prize Essay: Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg, and the Transmission of Imperial Polemic
- 4 Manipulating Historical Memory: Cosmas on the Sees of Prague and Olomouc
- 5 Poetry and History: Baudry of Bourgueil, the Architecture of Chivalry, and the First Crusade
- Authors' Preface to Chapters 6 and 7
- 6 Men and Masculinities at the Courts of the Anglo-Norman Kings in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis
- 7 Men and Masculinities in William of Malmesbury's presentation of the Anglo-Norman Court
- 8 The Personnel of Comital Administration in Greater Anjou, 1129–1151
- 9 The Murder of Gilbert the Forester
- 10 The Object as Subject in Medieval Art
1 - Francia and the History of Medieval Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Editor's Note
- Abbreviations
- 1 Francia and the History of Medieval Europe
- 2 Royal Control and the Disposition of Estates in Tenth-Century England: Reflections on the Charters of King Eadwig (955–959)
- 3 Denis Bethell Prize Essay: Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg, and the Transmission of Imperial Polemic
- 4 Manipulating Historical Memory: Cosmas on the Sees of Prague and Olomouc
- 5 Poetry and History: Baudry of Bourgueil, the Architecture of Chivalry, and the First Crusade
- Authors' Preface to Chapters 6 and 7
- 6 Men and Masculinities at the Courts of the Anglo-Norman Kings in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis
- 7 Men and Masculinities in William of Malmesbury's presentation of the Anglo-Norman Court
- 8 The Personnel of Comital Administration in Greater Anjou, 1129–1151
- 9 The Murder of Gilbert the Forester
- 10 The Object as Subject in Medieval Art
Summary
Charles Homer Haskins dedicated his great work Norman Institutions ‘to the spirit of France’. From the near-lyrical remarks in his Preface, he clearly had fond memories of working in the French archives, an affection no doubt sharpened by the dreadful carnage taking place in France in the year of the work's publication. It is therefore striking to see how well read Haskins was in works in German, even when it came to writing about Norman institutions in England. This familiarity is yet more evident in both his The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century and the wide-ranging Studies in Medieval Culture. But though his reading of medieval culture led Haskins to consider Latin texts from across England and the Continent (and following the Normans took him, of course, to Sicily and beyond), France remained at the hub of his history.
Like Haskins, but unlike many of their English and French counterparts, American medievalists of the present generation are also widely read in German works, though relatively few of them actually concentrate on Germany. In both North America and Britain over the last fifty years there has been a strong focus on early medieval history, and on the history of Francia in particular. Because the region of Francia did increasingly extend across present-day German-speaking lands, the historical spotlight has moved eastwards with the Franks in the Carolingian period.
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- The Haskins Society Journal 232011. Studies in Medieval History, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014