Table of Contents

Why Do Battles Matter? - Christopher M. Clark
From Conquest to Commonwealth: Cross-Channel Circulation of Biblical Culture in the Anglo-Norman World - Julie Barrau
Documentation, Forgery and the Making of the Chronicle of Battle Abbey (British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A II) - Laura Cleaver
Rival Schoolmasters in Early Eleventh-Century Rouen with Special Reference to the Poetry of Warner of Rouen (fl. 996-1027) (The Marjorie Chibnall Memorial Essay) - Stefan de Jong
Remembering the Battle of Hastings: Memorialization, le Souvenir Normand, and the Entente Cordiale - Brian Golding
Earl Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross (1062) - Simon Keynes
Edward the Confessor and the Succession Question: A Fresh Look at the Sources - Tom Licence
England and Flanders Around 1066: The Cult of the English Saints Oswald and Lewinna in the Comital Abbey of Bergues - Brigitte Meijns
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio: Politics and the Poetics of 1067 - Thomas O'Donnell
England and Germany: Two Perspectives - Alheydis Plassmann
Les préparatifs nautiques de la Conquête: un héritage viking? Les mots ont la parole... - Elisabeth Ridel
Battle Abbey and the Vellomaniacs - Locating the Monastic Archive - Christopher Whittick, Senior Archivist
Of Danes and Thegns and Domesday Book: Scandinavian Settlement in eleventh-century Berkshire - Ann Williams

About the Author

Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Christopher Whittick spent 44 years as an archivist in local government and is now a freelance cataloguer, researcher and editor. Laura Cleaver is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on manuscripts made in England and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and on the sale of pre-modern manuscripts in the early twentieth century. THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.