Anglo-Norman Studies XI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1988

306 Pages·1989·47.901 MB·English

by  R. Allen Brown

ANGLO-NORMAN STUDIES XI
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BAlTLE CONFERENCE
1988
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ANGLO-NORMAN STUDIES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BATTLE CONFERENCE
1988
Edited by R. Allen Brown
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CONTENTS
vi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
viii
PREFACE
ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
St Pancras Priory, Lewes: its Architectural Development to 1200 1
Freda Anderson
Wace and Warfare
Matthew Bennett
John Leland and the Anglo-Norman Historian
Caraline Brett
The Growth of Castle Studies in England and on the Continent since
1850
Joan Counihan
The Logistics of Fortified Bridge Building on the Seine under
Charles the Bald
Carroll Gillmar
Charles the Bald's Fortified Bridge at Pitres (Seine): Recent
Archaeological Investigations
Brian Dearden
The Struggle for Benefices in Twelfth-Century East Anglia
Christopher Harper-Bill
Coastal Salt Production in Norman England
Laurence Keen
The Welsh Alliances of Earl Elfgar of Mercia and his Family in the
mid-Eleventh Century
K. L. Maund
Domesday Slavery
John S. Moore
Hydrographic and Ship-Hydrodynamic Aspects of the Norman
Invasion, AD 1066
J. Neumann
Monks in the World: the Case of Gundulf of Rochester
Marylou Ruud
Royal Service and Reward: the Clare Family and the Crown,
1066-1154
Jennifer C. Ward
A Vice-Comital Family in Pre-Conquest Warwickshire
Ann Williams
ILLUSTRATIONS
St Pancras Priory, Lewes
SAS - Sussex Archaeologicat Society; FEMA - F. E. M. Anderson;
ESRO - East Sussex Record Office; EG - Emit Godfrey; c. -
Copyright.
1 Map, Lewes, 1824; Figg (c. ESRO)
2 Parsons Plan, 1845 (c. SAS)
3 Brakspear Plan, 1906 (c. SAS)
4 SW Tower. Detail from Brakspear Plan (c. SAS)
5 SW Tower, SE pier (c. FEMA)
6 SW Tower, base (a) (c. FEMA)
7 SW Tower, base (b) (c. FEMA)
8 SW Tower, base (c) (c. FEMA)
9 SW Cloister, Detail of Iavatorium from Brakspear Plan (c. SAS)
10 Interior, twelfth-century reredorter (c. FEMA)
11 Exterior, Worcester Abbey reredorter (c. EG)
12 Interior, Worcester Abbey reredorter (c. EG)
23 Interior, twelfth-century dorter undercroft (c. EG)
14 'Infirmary Chapel.' Detail fram Brakspear Plan (c. SAS)
15 UXI, south wall (c. FEMA)
16 UXI, east wall (c. FEMA)
17 UXI, west wall (c. FEMA)
18 UXI, north wall (c. FEMA)
19 Wall F, 1987 (c. FEMA)
20 Wall F, 1737 (c. ESRO)
21 Wall F, 1737. Detail (c, ESRO)
22 Wall F, 176115 (c. SAS)
23 Wall F, 1761/5. Detail (c. SAS)
24 Wall F, 1785 (c. SAS)
25 Wall F, 1785. Detail (c. SAS)
26 Wall F, south face, FG (c. FEMA)
27 Wall F, south face, FF and EX (c. FEMA)
28 Wall F, south face, FE (c. FEMA)
29 Wall F, south face, FD (c. FEMA)
30 Wall F, south face, FB (c. FEMA)
31 Wall F, north face, FB (c. FEMA)
32 Wall F, south face, FA (c. FEMA)
33 Wall F, north face, FA (c. FEMA)
34 Wall F, north face, 1845 (c. ESRO)
35 Wall F, north face, 1845. Detail (c. ESRO)
36 'I~firmaryC hapel', north wall (c. EG)
'Infirmary Chapel', nookshaft, NE chancel (c. EG)
Reverend Gaunt, Isfield, first drawing. Detail (c. SAS)
Reverend Gaunt, IsfieId, second drawing. Detail (c. SAS)
'Infirmary Chapel', photograph, nineteenth century (c. ESRO)
'Infirmary Chapel', photograph, 1987 (c. FEMA)
Godfrey Plan, 1927. Detail (c. SAS)
Purbeck marble plinth (c. FEMA)
Charles the Bald's Fortified Bridge at Piires (Seine)
1 The location of Pont de !'Arche
2 The survey of 1987-8
3 The contours survey, 1988
4 Le Fort, Igoville. Excavation of pit, 1971. North section
Coastal Salt Production in Norman England
Appendix One. The Domesday salt-works
1 Lincolnshire
2 Norfolk
3 Suffolk
4 Essex
5 Kent
6 Sussex
7 Hampshire and East Dorset
8 Devon, West Dorset and Cornwall
Royal Service and Reward
Genealogy: the Clare family, 1066-1 154
A Vice-Comital Family in Pre-Conquest Warwickshire
Genealogy: the kinsmen of Ethelwine
PREFACE
The eleventh annual Battle Conference, which was held from 22 to 27 July
1988, at Pyke House, Battle, was the last to be directed by Professor R. Allen
Brown. He died on 1 February 1989, after a long and heroic struggle against
cancer. The Battle Conferences have been rightly described as one of the
'great historical enterprises' which he inaugurated and inspired. For more than
a decade they have brought together scholars from many parts of Europe and
North America, as well as the Middle East and Japan, to take part in an
interdisciplinary forum for the presentation and study of the latest research in
Anglo-Norman and late Old English history. Papers on archaeology, archi-
tecture, literature and language have all been prominent alongside those on
every aspect of history, A notable feature has been the practical study of arms
and amour, accompanied on one occasion by a demonstration of the way in
which fully armed Norman knights wuld charge on horseback up the hill at
Battle. Over the years the conferences have become a centre of warmth and
friendship as well as good scholarship. Allen Brown gave them an impetus that
will ensure their survival. Our sense of loss now is great; but the Battle
Conferences wilt continue in future years as a fitting memorial to him.
The papers in this volume were all read in the course of the eleventh
conference. Allen Brown himself attended almost to the end, and it was
appropriate that the news of his appointment by the French government as
'Chevalier de I'Ordre des Arts et Lettres' came through on the last day.
During the excursion to Lewes he led the participants, undeterred by thickets
of brambles, to the summit of both mottes. The visit to Lewes Priory was
kindly organised and led by Dr F. E. M. Anderson, to whom especial thanks
are due. Mrs Gillian Murton and her assistants at the East Sussex County
Council, and Mr Peter Birch and his staff at Pyke House, again gave
invaluable support and help in organising the conference and providing for the
camfort of the participants. Allen Brown was able to compfete all the editorial
work for this volume of the proceedings, apart from the final stages of seeing it
through the press. Any difficultiesw hich might have arisen at this stage have
been smoothed over by the calm efficiency of the editorial staff under the
direction of Dr Richard Barber at the Boydell Press.
Clare Hall, Cambridge Marjorie Chibnall
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1969
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BIHR Bu//eri~o f the Irzstitute ofHistorica1 Research
BL British Library
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1965
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Carmen The Carmen de Hasringae Proelio qf Guy bishop of Antiens,
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De gestis regum William of Malmesbury, Dt gestis regllm An~qlonnm,e d. W.
Srubbs, RS 1887
Domcsday Book Domesday Book, set4 liber censt.~alis. . ., ed. A. Farley, 2 vols,
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Dudo De imrihirs et actis primorurn Normantzinc Ducum auctore
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Antiquaires de Normandie, 1865
Eadmer Historia r~ovonrrni n Anglia, ed. M. Rule, RS 1884
EHD English Historical Documents, i, ed. D. Whitclock, London
1955; ii, ed. D. C. Douglas, London 1953
EHR English Historical Review
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Fauroux, Memoires de la Sociiti des Antiquaires de
Normandie, xxxvi, 1961
GEC Cotnplete Peerafpe of Enxland; Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain
and the United Kingdom, 13 vols in 14, London 1910-59
Gesta Guillelmi William of Poitiers, Gestrr Guillelmi . . ., ed. R. Foreville,
Paris 1952
Historia Novetla William of Malmesbury, Historia Novella, ed. K. R. Potter,
Nelson's Medieval Texts, London 1955
HMSO Her Majesty's Stationery Off~ce,L ondon
Huntingdon Henry of Huntingdon, Historin An,qlnrum, ed. T. ArnoId,
RS 1879
Journ. BAA Jourrtal tf the British Archaeolo~picalA ssociation