Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Ann Williams: a Personal Appreciation
- Life-writing and the Anglo-Saxons
- Meet the Swarts: Tracing a Thegnly Family in Late Anglo-Saxon England
- The Moneyers of Kent in the Long Eleventh Century
- Master Wace: a cross-Channel Prosopographer for the Twelfth Century?
- From Minster to Manor: the Early History of Bredon
- Eadulfingtun, Edmonton, and their Contexts
- The Family of Wulfric Spott: an Anglo-Saxon Mercian Marcher Dynasty?
- The Burial of King Æthelred the Unready at St Paul's
- Eustace II of Boulogne, the Crises of 1051–2 and the English Coinage
- Through the Eye of the Needle: Stigand, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Beginnings of the Historia Anglorum
- Robert of Torigni and the Historia Anglorum
- Invoking Earl Waltheof
- Hidden Lives: English Lords in post-Conquest Lincolnshire and Beyond
- Lordship and Lunching: Interpretations of Eating and Food in the Anglo-Norman World, 1050–1200, with Reference to the Bayeux Tapestry
- The Exchequer Cloth, c. 1176–1832: the Calculator, the Game of Chess, and the Process of Photozincography
- Ann Williams: a Bibliography 1969–2011
- Index
- Tabula Gratuloria
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Ann Williams: a Personal Appreciation
- Life-writing and the Anglo-Saxons
- Meet the Swarts: Tracing a Thegnly Family in Late Anglo-Saxon England
- The Moneyers of Kent in the Long Eleventh Century
- Master Wace: a cross-Channel Prosopographer for the Twelfth Century?
- From Minster to Manor: the Early History of Bredon
- Eadulfingtun, Edmonton, and their Contexts
- The Family of Wulfric Spott: an Anglo-Saxon Mercian Marcher Dynasty?
- The Burial of King Æthelred the Unready at St Paul's
- Eustace II of Boulogne, the Crises of 1051–2 and the English Coinage
- Through the Eye of the Needle: Stigand, the Bayeux Tapestry and the Beginnings of the Historia Anglorum
- Robert of Torigni and the Historia Anglorum
- Invoking Earl Waltheof
- Hidden Lives: English Lords in post-Conquest Lincolnshire and Beyond
- Lordship and Lunching: Interpretations of Eating and Food in the Anglo-Norman World, 1050–1200, with Reference to the Bayeux Tapestry
- The Exchequer Cloth, c. 1176–1832: the Calculator, the Game of Chess, and the Process of Photozincography
- Ann Williams: a Bibliography 1969–2011
- Index
- Tabula Gratuloria
Summary
The essays presented in this volume in honour of Ann Williams reflect the wide interests of a scholar who has changed our understanding of the society of Anglo- Saxon and Anglo-Norman England. Appropriately enough, Ann began her academic career with a translation and study of the Dorset folios of Domesday Book for the Victoria History of the county. In this way she joined a line of distinguished Domesday scholars which stretched back to J. H. Round and Sir Frank Stenton, the external examiner for her thesis. Thus was inaugurated an engagement with a fundamental source for eleventh-century history that has persisted to the present day. Her contribution to its study has been no less important than her predecessors'. When a state-of-the-art facsimile of Domesday Book was proposed in the early 1980s, along with a new translation and commentary, Ann was a natural choice as editor-in-chief. From 1984 to 2000, with Robert Erskine and then the late Geoffrey Martin as general editors, she oversaw the production of what is now the standard edition of Domesday Book published by Alecto Historical Editions. From the start, Ann imposed a tight editorial structure on the new translation which facilitated a higher degree of consistency than had ever been achieved before. Previous editions had tended to represent personal names as they were presented by scribes who had adopted a programme of Latinization or who simply did not understand what they were reading. Ann, by contrast, insisted on identifying and using their OE and Norman forms wherever possible. Likewise, she oversaw a review of the placename evidence and standardized their representation.
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- The English and their Legacy, 900–1200Essays in Honour of Ann Williams, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012