A rich collection of articles on multiple aspects of Anglo-Norman and Norman studies, forming an indispensable addition to an understanding of this important period of history.This volume of Anglo-Norman Studies demonstrates yet again the multi-disciplinarity and European range of the series. As befits the proceedings of a conference held in Normandy at Bayeux, it contains two articles on the renowned Tapestry, and a consideration of the campaign of 1066; there are also several papers on the medieval duchy, their topics including its early tenth-century origins, the abbesses of Norman nunneries, abbatial investitures in the context of religious reform, the reign of Robert Curthose, the charters of a major aristocratic family, and historical writing in and around late twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Normandy. Alongside these are articleson landscape and belief, villein manumissions and the theology of the incarnation, the evolution of criminal law in Scotland, Bohemond of Antioch, the architectural historian John Bilson, and important aspects of twelfth-centurypoetry. David Bates is a Professorial Fellow at the University of East Anglia and was until recently a Visiting Professor at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie. Contributors: Lesley Abrams, Bernard S. Bachrach, Steven Biddlecombe, Alexandrina Buchanan, Howard B. Clarke, Edoardo D'Angelo, Gregory Fedorenko, Jean-Hervé Foulon, George Garnett, Véronique Gazeau, Paul R. Hyams, Sylvette Lemagnen, Monika Otter, Daniel Power, Alice Taylor, C.S. Watkins.

Editor's PrefaceA Three-cornered Dynamic of Redemption in the 'Long' Thirteenth Century: Villein Manumissions and the Theology of the Incarnation [The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2011] - Paul HyamsFemmes en religion, personnes d'autorité: les abbesses normandes [XIe-XIIIe siècles] [The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, 2012] - Véronique GazeauThe Role of the Curator of the Bayeux Tapestry - Sylvette LemagnenEarly Normandy - Lesley AbramsThe Norman Conquest, Countess Adela, and Abbot Baudri - Bernard S BachrachBaldric of Bourgueil and the Flawed Hero - Steven J. BiddlecombeJohn Bilson [1856-1943] and the Study of Anglo-Norman Romanesque - Alexandrina BuchananThe Identity of the Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry - Howard B. ClarkeThe Pseudo-Hugh Falcandus in his own Texts - Edoardo D'AngeloThe Thirteenth-Century Chronique de Normandie - Gregory FedorenkoLes investitures abbatiales en Normandie: quelques réflexions autour du cas de l'abbaye du Bec-Hellouin [1034-1136] - Jean-Hervé FoulonRobert Curthose: The Duke who Lost His Trousers - George GarnettSufficientia: A Horatian Topos and the Boundaries of the Self in Three Twelfth-Century Poems - Monika C OtterAristocratic Acta in Normandy and England, c.1150-c.1250: The Charters and Letters of the Du Hommet constables of Normandy - Daniel PowerCrime without Punishment: Medieval Scottish Law in Comparative Perspective - Alice TaylorLandscape and Belief in Anglo-Norman England - Carl S. Watkins