The Haskins Society Journal 33

Continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research into the early and central Middle Ages, demonstrating its belief that the close interrogation of primary sources can yield new insights into or important revisions of our understanding of the past.

This volume continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages, demonstrating its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yield new insights or important revisions into our understanding of the past.

Volume 33 of theHaskins Society Journal continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages and demonstrates its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yield new insights or important revisions into our understanding of the past. After an investigation of the role of Anglo-Saxon bishops in the provision of coastal defense, the subsequent articles explore different dimensions of the Anglo-Norman period: the place of sex at the royal court, the penitential sensibilities of Anglo-Norman prelates and their geographical expression, the complexity of using Anglo-Norman land surveys as evidence for the nature of and changes in peasant labor and obligations, and the office of sheriff and its place in the developing common law. The Denis Bethell Prize winning essay, through its close analysis of Denis Piramus' French translation of theLife of Edmund, king of England, explores the role of translated texts in the formation of Anglo-Norman elite identity. Essays on Queen Ingeborg of Denmark's conception and expression of her role as a Capetian queen. and on the use and meaning of direct and metaphorical references to art and artists in French sermons in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, round out the volume.

Contributors: Yaoling Dai, Gabrielle Faundez-Rojas, P.D.A Harvey, Charles Insley, Tom Licence, Sara Lipton, Anne C. Schlender, Nigel Tringham.

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1 Naval Warfare, the State, and the Archbishops of Canterbury in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Charles Insley

2 Sex at the Court of William Rufus
Tom Licence

3 The Rural Community in Twelfth-Century England
P. D. A. Harvey

4 Penitence and piety: the death-bed charters of Ranulf, earl of Chester (d. 1153)
Nigel Tringham

5 The Queen of Orléans: Ingeborg of Denmark, Female Rulership, and the Capetian Monarchy
Anna C. Schlender

6 Denis Piramus'sLa Vie Seint Edmund: Translating Cultural Identities in the Anglo-Norman World
Gabriela A. Faundez Rojas

7 The Sheriff and the Common Law: 1188-1230
Yaoling Dai

8Ut Artifex: Art, Artifice, and Instruction in High Medieval Sermons
Sara Lipton