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The Haskins Society Journal  is an annual journal focused on the history of the early and central Middle Ages, with a special emphasis on Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Viking, and Anglo-Norman history

We welcome contributions utilizing diverse methods and evidence and regularly publish essays that draw extensively on archeology, art history, Latin and vernacular philology, law, and literature.

The Haskins Society Journal is published by Boydell & Brewer, Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk-

The Haskins Society Journal. Studies in Medieval History. Vol. 23
Ed by William North
The Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2014
ISBN: 9781843838890

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Francia and the History of Medieval Europe
By Paul Fouracre
– A historiographical essay, which “explores the question of why Francia, and in particularly a French Francia, came to take centre stage as a model for continental development in the early Middle Ages

Royal Control and the Disposition of Estates in Tenth-Century England: Reflections on the Charters of King Eadwig (955 – 959)
By Ryan Lavelle
– This article examines the politics behind the disposition of Lands in the tenth-century English kingdom

Frutolf of Michelsberg’s Chronicle, the Schools of Bamberg, and the Transmission of Imperial Polemic
By T. J. H. McCarthy
– The purpose of this article is to examine the form of Frutolf’s portrayal of the upheavals of his lifetime and their broader implications

Manipulating Historical Memory: Cosmas on the Sees of Prague and Olomouc
By Lisa Wolverton
– This article considers the history of the bishopric of Prague as described in the Chronicle of the Czechs, written ca. 1120 by Cosmas

Poetry and History: Baudry of Bourgueil, the Architecture of Chivalry, and the First Crusade
By Jay Rubenstein
This article explores the writings about and the reality behind Baudry of Bourgeueil’s concept of chivalry

Men and Masculinities at the Courts of the Anglo-Norman kings in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis
Kirsten A. Fenton and Simon Yarrow

Men and masculinities in William of Malmesbury’s presentation of the Anglo-Norman court
Kirsten A. Fenton

– These associated articles offer explanatory investigations into constructions of Mascyulinity at the courts of Anglo-Norman kings as contributions to the larger study of gender in the Anglo-Norman realm”

The Personnel of Comital Administration in Greater Anjou, 1129 -1151
by Kathryn Dutton

– This paper examines Geoffrey’s closest followers: who they were, why these particular men feature so prominently as actors in geoffreys’ acta and elsewhere, and what these men meant for the consequent natur of the Angevin comital administration

The Murder of Gilbert the Forester
By H. F. Doherty
The focus of this paper is the murder of Gilbert, a minor royal forest official in Staffordshire, and his companions, and the punishment of their murderer, who were hanged in late July 1175 at King Henry’s command in Lichfield as he made his way from Woodstock towards Nottingham

The Object as Subject in Medieval Art
Herbert L. Kessler
– The article explores the field between understanding medieval art as “art” and as material artefacts of a bygone age.