Description
Offers a new take on the identities and life histories of medieval people, in their multi-layered and sometimes contradictory dimensions.
About the Author
Julie Barrau is Senior Lecturer in Medieval British History at the University of Cambridge. She has published research on Thomas Becket and his circle, letter-writing, Latin literacy, and on the circulation of knowledge in the central Middle Ages. Her first book, Bible, lettres et politique. L'Ecriture au service des hommes a l'epoque de Thomas Becket, was awarded the Prix Saintour by the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres. David Bates is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. He gave the Ford Lectures in the University of Oxford in 2010 and has a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Caen-Normandie. His most recent books are The Normans and Empire (2013), William the Conqueror (2016; French translation, 2018), and (with Xavier Barral i Altet), La Tapisserie de Bayeux (2019), awarded the Prix du Livre d'Art by the Syndicat National des Antiquaires.
Reviews
'In this volume a galaxy of leading historians illuminates a wide range of topics and themes. Our understanding of post-Conquest England, Normandy, Flanders, medieval memory and historiography, ideas of gender and the study of the bible is enriched through analysis of charters, chronicles, legal treatises, glosses, hagiography and vernacular texts. Yet the chapters have a unity, fanning out as they do from the oeuvre of the beneficently influential historian whom the volume honours.' David D'Avray, University College London
Book Information
ISBN 9781107160804
Author Julie Barrau
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 650g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 158mm * 23mm