This volume continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages, demonstrating its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yield new insights or important revisions into our understanding of the past.Volume 33 of the Haskins Society Journal continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages and demonstrates its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yield new insights or important revisions into our understanding of the past. After an investigation of the role of Anglo-Saxon bishops in the provision of coastal defense, the subsequent articles explore different dimensions of the Anglo-Norman period: the place of sex at the royal court, the penitential sensibilities of Anglo-Norman prelates and their geographical expression, the complexity of using Anglo-Norman land surveys as evidence for the nature of and changes in peasant labor and obligations, and the office of sheriff and its place in the developing common law. The Denis Bethell Prize winning essay, through its close analysis of Denis Piramus' French translation of the Life of Edmund, king of England, explores the role of translated texts in the formation of Anglo-Norman elite identity. Essays on Queen Ingeborg of Denmark's conception and expression of her role as a Capetian queen. and on the use and meaning of direct and metaphorical references to art and artists in French sermons in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, round out the volume.Contributors: Yaoling Dai, Gabrielle Faundez-Rojas, P.D.A Harvey, Charles Insley, Tom Licence, Sara Lipton, Anne C. Schlender, Nigel Tringham.

List of IllustrationsEditors' NoteAbbreviations1 Naval Warfare, the State, and the Archbishops of Canterbury in the Tenth and Eleventh CenturiesCharles Insley2 Sex at the Court of William RufusTom Licence3 The Rural Community in Twelfth-Century EnglandP. D. A. Harvey4 Penitence and piety: the death-bed charters of Ranulf, earl of Chester (d. 1153) Nigel Tringham5 The Queen of Orléans: Ingeborg of Denmark, Female Rulership, and the Capetian MonarchyAnna C. Schlender6 Denis Piramus's La Vie Seint Edmund: Translating Cultural Identities in the Anglo-Norman WorldGabriela A. Faundez Rojas7 The Sheriff and the Common Law: 1188-1230Yaoling Dai8 Ut Artifex: Art, Artifice, and Instruction in High Medieval SermonsSara Lipton