Haskins Society Journal 32: 2020. Studies in Medieval History

Essays in this volume of the Haskins Society Journal explore a wide range of topics from the Middle Ages, including militarism, piety, the miraculous, and the monstrous. They also examine material culture, Carolingian hagiography, the undead, priests' wives, multiple lordships, shifting identities, and the didactic use of royal anger. Two essays on the thirteenth century investigate links between Crusade spirituality and lay penitential strategies and the economic costs of waging war.

Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 17 December 2021
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

From the seals of an empress to the wives of priests and the undead, essays explore a wide range of topics from the Middle Ages. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal showcases the Society's ongoing commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early to the central Middle Ages on a diverse array of subjects, including militarism, piety, the miraculous, and the monstrous. Chapters delve into material culture through a mythic eleventh-century papal banner and the seals and coins of the Empress Matilda, offering fresh insights into Carolingian hagiography and the undead in the Historia rerum Anglicarum. Additional chapters explore the roles of priests' wives, the complexities of multiple lordships, shifting identities in the Irish Sea world, and the pedagogical use of royal anger. A fresh examination of Aelred of Rievaulx's Relatio de Standaro and a re-assessment of Flemish documentary practice further strengthen the Haskins Society's dedication to primary source analysis. Two essays on the thirteenth century, exploring the connections between Crusade spirituality and lay penitential strategies and investigating the economic costs of waging war, round out the volume.

Contributors to this volume include DAN ARMSTRONG, DAVID S. BACHRACH, DANIEL M. BACHRACH, JILLIAN M. BJERKE, HANNAH BOSTON, MARIAH COOPER, FIONA J. GRIFFITHS, JESSE M. HARRINGTON, JEAN-FRANÇOIS NIEUS, ALICE RIO, CHARITY URBANSKI, PATRICK WADDEN, MEGHAN WOOLLEY, and LU ZUO.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781783276592