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People, texts and artefacts Cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds People, texts and artefacts Cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds Edited by David Bates, Edoardo D’Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts LONDON INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Published by UNIVERSITY OF LONDON SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH Senate House, Malet Street, London WCE HU First published in print in (ISBN ----) is book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives . International (CC BY- NCND .) license. More information regarding CC licenses is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Available to download free at http://www.humanities-digital-library.org ISBN ---- (PDF edition) DOI: ./. Contents Editors’ preface vii List of contributors ix List of plates and gures xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 David Bates and Elisabeth van Houts . Harness pendants and the rise of armory 17 John Baker . e transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c.1050–c.1250 47 Elma Brenner . Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo’s De Balneis Puteolanis: new hypotheses 65 Teolo De Angelis . A Latin school in the Norman principality of Antioch 77 Edoardo D’Angelo 5. Culti e agiograe d’età normanna in Italia meridionale 89 Amalia Galdi . e landscape of Anglo-Norman England: chronology and cultural transmission 105 Robert Liddiard . e medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava 127 G. A. Loud . Écrire la conquête: une comparaison des récits de Guillaume de Poitiers et de Georoi Malaterra 153 Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel . Bede’s legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon 171 Alheydis Plassmann v People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds . e transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth century 193 Daniel Power . Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050–1150 213 Patricia Skinner . Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century Normandy 231 Alice Taylor . Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of Sicily 253 Mario Rosario Zecchino Index 267 vi Editors’ preface is volume developed out of meetings between the three editors during the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies held at Bayeux in July and afterwards in Caen and elsewhere. e aim was always to bring together scholars from dierent countries with an interest in the history of the Normans and to create dialogues between them. e ambition became a reality when Professor Ortensio Zecchino invited us to organize two conferences, the rst of which he would host at the Centro Europeo di Studi Normanni in Ariano Irpino from to September and the second of which would be held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from to March . It was decided at the beginning that the conferences would have the specic theme of cultural transmission across and within the Norman worlds and that they would be interdisciplinary in approach. e organizers are grateful to Ortensio Zecchino for all the support he has given to the conferences and to the sta of the Centro Europeo di Studi Normanni for making the time spent there such an enjoyable one. e conference at Emmanuel College received nancial support from the Master and Fellows of Emmanuel College, from the Trevelyan Fund of the Faculty of History of the University of Cambridge, and from the School of History of the University of East Anglia. We must express our warmest thanks to Dr. Helen Carron and Dr. Julie Barrau for the organization of an exhibition of the medieval manuscripts of Emmanuel College in the College Library, to Professor Sir John Baker for allowing us to exhibit a selection of his horse harness pendants on the same occasion, and to Emily Ward who as a student assistant helped enormously with the logistics of the Cambridge conference. ere were several scholars who contributed papers or talks to the two conferences but who, for various reasons, were unable to include them in the published volume. ey are David Abulaa, Julie Barrau, Armando Bisanti, Errico Cuozzo, Lindy Grant, Tom Licence, Giuseppe Mastrominico, Paul Oldeld, Anna Laura Trombetti, and Jolando Ventura, all of whom played their part in making the conferences such friendly and stimulating occasions. Our nal thanks must be to Professor Lawrence Goldman and Professor Jane Winters for ensuring that this remarkable trilingual volume would be accepted for publication by the Institute of Historical Research in an appropriate form and to Julie Spraggon, Emily Morrell, and Jessica Davies Porter for their exemplary editorial work. Finally, many thanks to Derwin Gregory for his help in preparing the index. vii List of contributors S J B is Emeritus Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge, and writes on legal history. His collection of heraldic manuscripts and artefacts, including over , medieval harness decorations, has mostly been formed over the last fteen years. D B is a professorial fellow at the University of East Anglia and docteur honoris causa of the Université de Caen-Normandie. He has published extensively on the histories of England and Normandy during the tenth, eleventh and twelfth centuries. His two most recent books are e Normans and Empire () and William the Conqueror (). A French translation of the second of these is in progress. E B is research development specialist (medieval and early modern) at the Wellcome Collection, London. Her research examines the medical and religious culture of medieval Normandy, and she is currently co-editing (with François-Olivier Touati) a collection of essays on Leprosy and Identity in the Middle Ages: from England to the Mediterranean. T D A is adjunct professor of Latin literature at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples. He has written several articles on topics specically related to the Lombard and Norman-Swabian periods and has completed a critical edition of the sixth book of Petrus de Vinea’s Epistolary and of Petrus de Ebulo’s De Euboicis aquis (forthcoming with Edizione Nazionale dei Testi Mediolatini d’Italia, Florence). He is also a permanent contributor to the S.I.S.M.E.L. bibliographical bulletin Medioevo latino. E D’A is a full professor of medieval Latin philology at the University of Naples and docteur honoris causa of the Université de Caen- Normandie. He has published twenty-three monographs (studies, critical editions) and more than articles on various topics, themes, authors and texts concerning medieval Latin literature, with specic attention to Norman literary production. A G is an associate professor of medieval history at the University of Salerno in the Department of Cultural Heritage, where she also teaches the history of medieval institutions. She is the author of numerous works devoted mainly to southern Italy in the middle ages, from the Lombard period to the Angevin. She is currently working on a book on Salerno in the Angevin age, which is part of a larger research project devoted to the study of cities in the late middle ages. ix People, texts and artefacts: cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds R L is professor of history at the University of East Anglia. He has written extensively on castles and high status landscapes of the middle ages, and his most recent edited collection Late Medieval Castles was published in by Boydell and Brewer. G A. L is professor of medieval history at the University of Leeds, where he was head of the School of History from –. e author of many books and articles on the Normans and on southern Italy, he currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and is preparing a monograph on e Social World of the Abbey of Cava, c. –. M -A L -A is maître de conférences in Latin at the University of Caen Normandie and deputy director of the Centre Michel de Boüard (UMR ) and director of the online review Tabularia: the sources écrites des Mondes normands médiévaux. In she published the multimodal and critical edition with a French translation of Georoi Malaterra, Histoire du Grand Comte Roger et de son frère Robert Guiscard, vol. : Books I and II, Caen, PUC (Fontes et paginae). e second volume, containing books III and IV, is in preparation. She is also preparing a critical edition of Serlo of Bayeux’s poems in collaboration with Edoardo D’Angelo and Moreed Arbabzadah. A P teaches at the University of Bonn. Her research areas are the regional history of the Rhineland and Normans and English historical writing. She is currently working on a long-term project entitled ‘e king as tyrant. Royal Herrschaft in England through the lens of criticism (–)’. D P is professor of medieval history at Swansea University. His research concerns France and England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He is currently preparing a study of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy after the Capetian annexation of Normandy in and an edition of the acts of the Hommet family, constables of Normandy. P S holds a personal chair in history at Swansea University. Her research focuses on gender and minority groups in medieval Europe, and she is the author of Living with Disgurement in Early Medieval Europe () and Studying Gender in Medieval Europe: Historical Approaches ( ), both published by Palgrave Macmillan. A T is reader in medieval history at King’s College London. She specializes in the political, legal and institutional history of Europe in the central middle ages, with a particular focus on Scotland. She is currently researching and writing a book on governmental forms in twelfth-century Europe. x List of contributors E H is honorary professor of European medieval history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College. She has published widely on Anglo-Norman history, Latin historiography and memory. Her book Married Life in the Middle Ages - is forthcoming.