Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister

243 Pages·2007·5.925 MB·English

by  Donald F. Fleming, Janet M. Pope

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THE HASKINS SOCIETY JOURNAL
STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY
HENRY I AND
THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD
STUDIES IN MEMORY OF
C.WARREN HOLLISTER
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The Charles Homer Haskins Society
Officers and Councillors for 2005
Officers
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European Vice-President: Graham Loud, University of Leeds
Japanese Vice-President: Hirokazu Tsurushima
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Frontispiece: C. Warren Hollister.
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HENRY I AND
THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD
STUDIES IN MEMORY OF
C.WARREN HOLLISTER
EDITED BY
DONALD F.FLEMING
JANET M.POPE
The Haskins Society Journal
Special Volume 17
2006
THE BOYDELL PRESS
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Contents
Editor’s Note viii
Preface ix
Abbreviations xv
Bibliography of C.Warren Hollister’s Publications xix
1 C.Warren Hollister and the Private Life of Henry I
Lois L.Huneycut 1
2 From the Thames to Tinchebray: The Role of Normandy in the
Early Career of Henry I
Kathleen Thompson 16
3 Henry I and the English
Ann Williams 27
4 The Irish Sea Province and the Accession of Henry I
Robert S.Babcock 39
5 Henry I, Count Helias of Maine, and the Battle of Tinchebray
Richard E.Barton 63
6 Robert of Beaumont, Count of Meulan and Leicester: His Lands,
his Acts, and his Self-Image
David Crouch 91
7 The Double Display of Saint Romanus of Rouen in 1124
David S.Spear 117
8 Henry I and the English Church: The Archbishops and the King
Sally N.Vaughn 133
9 The Fiscal Management of England under Henry I
Stephanie Mooers Christelow 158
10 Henry I’s Administrative Legacy: The Significance of Place-Date
Distribution in the Acta of King Stephen
Heather J.Tanner 183
11 The Child-Bride, the Earl, and the Pope: The Marital Fortunes of
Agnes of Essex
RáGena C.DeAragon 200
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Editor’s Note
A full introduction and explanation of this volume’s contents is provided in the
Preface by this volume’s editors. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal
is a special volume devoted to Henry I and Warren Hollister’s work on his
reign. Its publication, between regular volumes for 2005 and 2006, brings the
number of volumes up to match the number of subscription years; the volume
is owed to those who were Haskins Society members in both 2000 and 2003.
This coming year’s regular volume and all subsequent volumes will then be
matched with subscription years in order.
This volume is the result of hard and dedicated work by its editors, Donald
F.Fleming and Janet M.Pope. The Journal Editor would like to thank them for
taking on a task that contributes significantly to the Society’s memory of one
of our founders, Warren Hollister, and contributes to the Society’s scholarly
record by continuing Warren’s work, as well as helping the Journal deal with
the last administrative issues arising from a previous backlog of volumes, now
entirely dealt with.
The Haskins Society Journal is an international refereed journal, and its
contents are not limited to papers read at the Society’s own conference or at
the sessions which it sponsors elsewhere. Papers on the history of England and
its neighbors in the Central Middle Ages are welcome from anyone. Authors
intending to submit are asked to write for guidelines and style sheets: contact
Dr. Stephen Morillo, Department of History, Wabash College, Crawfordsville,
IN 47933, USA; email: [email protected]. Information is also available at
the Haskins Society website at www.haskins.cornell.edu.

Stephen Morillo, Editor
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Preface
Janet M.Pope and Donald F.Fleming
This collection of essays is both a tribute to and a reflection of the career of
C.Warren Hollister. The idea for this volume began with a series of four
sessions on ‘Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World’ held in honor of the long-
awaited, and sadly posthumous, publication of Hollister’s biography of the king;
the sessions were part of the Thirty-Eighth International Medieval Congress at
Western Michigan University in early May, 2003. After the conference, the
Haskins Society very kindly expressed interest in publishing papers from the
sessions, augmented by other contributions, as a special volume of its Journal.
A fine collection of essays in Hollister’s honor, The Normans and their
Adversaries at War, had already appeared.1 As its title indicates, however, that
work focuses on one of Hollister’s scholarly interests, military history, and the
essays in it were written before Henry I was published. This collection in a
sense supplements it, concentrating on other fields where Hollister labored in
the work that culminated in Henry I: royal biography, of course, but also
political history more generally (including Church-State relations), administrative
history, and prosopography.
Although this volume grew out of the sessions at Kalamazoo in 2003, it
does not simply print the papers presented there. Only two of the essays, those
by Lois Huneycutt and Robert Babcock, are revised versions of papers from
that conference. Three other participants in those sessions, Richard Barton,
David Crouch, and Stephanie Christelow, chose to substitute essays that they
thought more fitting for this collection. Papers by Kathleen Thompson and Ann
Williams stem from another meeting, the Haskins Society Day-Conference on
‘Henry I of England’ held at the Institute of Historical Research in London in
September of 2002. In addition, several former students of Hollister who had
not presented papers at Kalamazoo generously contributed essays: David Spear,
Sally Vaughn, Heather Tanner, and RáGena DeAragon. Regardless of their
varied origins, all the essays represent work that is in some way dependent on
Hollister’s ground-breaking scholarship in Anglo-Norman studies, especially
his magnum opus, Henry I.
1 Richard P.Abels and Bernard S.Bachrach, eds., The Normans and their Adversaries at War:
Essays in Memory of C.Warren Hollister, Warfare in History (Woodbridge, 2001).
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