A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, HistoryThis volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area. It begins with an appropriately timely chapter on the Magna Carta, the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, given by John Hudson. Further topics include seals; English towns and urban society after the Norman Conquest; the records of Barking Abbey; the Bayeux Tapestry; monastic writing; and medical practitioners in Normandy. Contributors: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Casey Beaumont, Elma Brenner, Giles Gasper, Kate Hammond, John Hudson, Alan Murray, Jean-François Nieus, Jonathan Paletta, Susan Raich, Luigi Rosso, Miri Rubin, Hugh Thomas.

From the Articles of the Barons to Magna Carta - John HudsonJews in the Glosses of a Late Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Gratian Manuscript [Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 283/676] - Anna Sapir AbulafiaMonastic Autonomy, Episcopal Authority and the Norman Conquest: the records of Barking Abbey - Casey BeaumontEconomy Distorted, Economy Restored: order, economy and salvation in Anglo-Norman monastic writing - Giles E.M. GasperMonastic Patronage and Family Disputes in Eleventh- and Early Twelfth-Century Normandy - Kate HammondConstance, Princess of Antioch [1130-1164]: ancestry, marriages and family - Alan V MurrayEarly Aristocratic Seals: an Anglo-Norman success story - Jean-François NieusEnglish Towns and Urban Society after the Norman Conquest - Jonathan PalettaWreck of Sea in Law and Practice in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century England - Susan RaichSocial Life and Religious Culture in Twelfth-Century Norwich and Norfolk - Miri RubinBad crusaders? The Normans of Southern Italy and the Crusading Movement in the Twelfth Century - Luigi RussoTurold, Wadard, and Vitalis: Why are they on the Bayeux Tapestry? - Hugh M Thomas