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Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 Laura Ashe Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87891-3 - Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 Laura Ashe Index More information Index Adrian IV, pope 174 lack of later influence of 78 Aeneid performative text of 41--3 see Virgil political bias of 36, 40 Ailred of Rievaulx Benoˆit de Sainte-Maure 50 Genealogia regum Anglorum 52 Chronique desDucsdeNormandie 58, 67, 125 Vita S. Edwardi 29, 31--3, 52, 77 Bernard de Balliol, baron 102 Alexander III, pope 174, 176 Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint Alnwick, capture of William the Lion at 114 Vita sancti Malachiae 175 Althusser, Louis 27 borderlands ‘Angevin empire’ 97, 127, 157 see Scotland, borderland loyalties; Wales, see also cross-Channel cohesion, marcher society of; Vexin, historiography of the Norman Anglo-Norman historians 47, 58, 79 Brittany, relations with England of 155 see also GeffreiGaimar;Henry of Broceliande, forest of 73--4 Huntingdon; Orderic Vitalis; Bury St Edmunds, praise of 87 William of Malmesbury Anglo-Norman literature, precocity of 23 Canterbury see also genre, literary Bayeux Tapestry connection of 36 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 5--6, 205--7 manuscript art of 40 Anselm, Saint, archbishop of Canterbury Chre´tien de Troyes 10, 73, 144 on language 17 Arthurian romances, fictionality of 24--5, on truth 119 144--5 antique romances Yvain 73, 118 see romans antiques, romans d’antiquite´ Common Law, the English 11--14, 103, 104 Arbroath, royal abbey of 115 communities, medieval 4 Arthurian literature 10 Copsi, Coxo, earl of Northumbria 44 see also Chre´tien de Troyes Couronnement de Louis, The 109 assize of novel disseisin, the 103 cross-Channel cohesion 3 Augustine, Saint, bishop of Hippo historiography of 95 on language 15--17 division of landholding 75, 96 on prophecy 166 literary reception and circulation 10 separatism 96--7 Bakhtin, Mikhail 134, 143 cultural utility, as a mode of analysis 19 barbarism, collocated with paganism 116--17, 156--7, 175 Deeds of the Normans in Ireland, The Barthes, Roland 18, 65 see Song of Dermot and the Earl, The Bayeux Tapestry, the 20--1, 35--47 ‘Description of England’, the Anglo-Norman as an Anglo-Norman production 37, 43--4 207--8 borders of 46--7 Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster 159, hermeneutic openness of 36--7, 44 160, 173, 195 interpretive silences of 37--8, 39--41 Domesday Book 48--9 240 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87891-3 - Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 Laura Ashe Index More information Index 241 Domnall Mac Donnchada, king of Osraige 177--9 183--5 justification of conquest in 177, 192 Domnall Mo´r Ua Briain, king of Thomond 185 prophecies of Merlin in 169 Dunwich, defence of 88 purposeful omission of events in 177, 187 provincialism and family loyalty of 168, Eadmer of Canterbury 169--70, 185 Historia Novorum 40 Gesta Normannorum Ducum 57--8 Edgar Ætheling 44 Gilbert de Munfichet, baron 90 Edith, queen of England, wife of Edward the Gilbert of Louth, monk 195, 197, 199 Confessor 28, 45 Godwinesons, the, family of Earl Godwine 28, 45 Edward the Confessor, king of England 28, 31, Gospatric fitz Orm, castellan 89 39, 45 Edwin, Eadwine, earl of Mercia 44 H. de Saltrey, clerical writer Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of England 98, 125 Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii 194--8 English identity representation of Irish barbarism in 196--7 historiography of 7--9, 10--11, 94--5 habitus, anthropological theory of 14 pre-Conquest 3--5 Harley Psalter, the 40 relation with language of 8--9 Harold Godwineson, king of England 39--41, 45 see also Common Law, the English as an illegitimate king 31, 37 Espurgatoire Seint Patriz regarded as legitimate for purposes of see Marie de France prophecy 33 exile-and-return, literary motif of 107, 110--12 Hasting, viking invader of northern France 68--9 Expugnatio Hibernica Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 34, 66 see Gerald of Wales Henry I, king of England 32, 49, 51, 76 Henry II, king of England 82, 91 Fornham, battle of 89, 91 as a foreign king 104--5 as ‘fitz Empress’ 105 GeffreiGaimar as legal reformer 11, 103 Estoire des Engleis 20, 58, 124, 207 as patron of literature 49--50, 67, 125--7 genre, literary 143 compared with Charlemagne 107 chansons de geste 57, 108--10, 165 doing penance at Becket’s tomb 114 epic 134, 143 English genealogy of 32, 52 lyric 133, 134, 141--3, 144 lack of imperial ambition of 127 romance multiple identities of 52, 104--5, 107 Continental, characteristics of 144--6 policy for Ireland of 121, 187--9, 204 formation and origins of 134, 143--5 policy for Wales of 93, 171 insular, characteristics of 22, 23--4, 26, 107, racial address in the charters of 93 123--4, 146, 157 submission of the Irish kings to 188 love, as a structural principle of 144 using mercenaries 92 see also Bakhtin, Mikhail Henry of Huntingdon 58 Geoffrey, count of Nantes, brother of Henry II on William the Conqueror 6 128 Henry, the ‘Young King’ 57, 82, 99 Geoffrey V, count of Anjou, father of Henry II heraldry 85 54, 57 Hervey de Montmorency, uncle of Richard fitz Geoffrey of Monmouth Gilbert 178 use of prophecy of 33, 166 history Historia regum Britanniae 24, 60--2, 124 and hagiography 33--4 comparison of the Vulgate and First and topography 48--9, 59 Variant versions 61 as a divine plan 77, 119 Gerald of Wales as textuality 15, 18, 34, 65--6, 117--18 Expugnatio Hibernica 26--7, 161--3, 166--79 see also Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; moral interpretation in 167 Hugh of St Victor; Isidore of Seville; Fortune in 167--9 White, Hayden influence of 163 Hugh Bigod, first earl of Norfolk 89 Irish barbarism, representation of 161, 173, Hugh de Lacy, curial baron 190 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87891-3 - Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 Laura Ashe Index More information 242 Index Hugh del Chastel, lord of Chaˆteauneuf-en- representation of London in 112 Thimerais 91 representations of Scottish atrocities in Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham 90 115--17 Hugh of Cyfeiliog, fifth earl of Chester 93 representation of the Flemings in 85--6, Hugh of St Victor 87--8 on history 18 representation of William the Lion in 85, Humphrey (III) de Bohun 89, 91, 101, 102, 111 101 structure of 105, 106--7, 114 ideology, definition and use of 19 use of ‘foreigners’ in 84--7, 90, 92, 110 images, image-making 16 versification of 106 Ireland adoption of Irish and Welsh saints by the Kundera, Milan 148 invaders of 186 as a colonial and post-colonial space 27, Lacan, Jacques 161, 205 192--4, 201--4 landholding causes of the English invasions of 173--4 as the source of nobility 59--60, 98, 119 connections with England of 160 revolutionized by the Conquest 12--13, 104 distinctive characteristics of the Church see also Domesday Book of 175 Laudabiliter 174 feudal structures in 190 Leicester, earl and countess of interpreters in 164, 181 see Robert de Breteuil; Petronilla de justification of the conquest of 104, Grandmesnil 176--80 Le´vi-Strauss, Claude 161 lay literacy in 164--5 London 112 nature of English lordship of 189--90 Lorca´n Ua Tuathail, Saint, archbishop of nature of the English invasions of Dublin 184 180--1, 188 Louis VII, king of France 82, 99 paradoxes in the conquest of 192 regarded as barbarous and uncivilized Mac Donnchada 174--7 see Domnall Mac Donnchada submission to Henry II of the kings of 188 Magna Carta 104 Treaty of Windsor regarding 188 Marie de France 165 see also Henry II, policy for Ireland of; Espurgatoire Seint Patriz, attrib. to Laudabiliter 198--201 Isidore of Seville representation of the Irish in 199--200 on historia 66 possible identity of 201 on truth 117--18 Maud, Matilda, Empress, wife of Geoffrey V of Anjou, mother of Henry II 32, 53, 105 Jameson, Fredric 154 Maud, Matilda, queen of England, wife of John de Courcy, lord of Ulster 186, 189--90 Henry I 32, 105 John, king of England, lord of Ireland 57, 193, Maurice de Prendergast, ‘of Osraige’ 183--5 204 Maurice fitz Gerald, uncle of Gerald of Wales Jordan Fantosme 56 167 Chronicle 21--2, 81--120, 207 Meiler fitz Henry, justiciar of Ireland 162 compared with chansons de geste 107--10 mercenaries, Brabanc¸on 92 Englishness expressed in 9, 89, 105 Morcar, earl of Northumbria 44 as providential history 117--20 Murchad Ua Brain, king of Dubthar, executed audience of 82--4 by Strongbow 182--3 barons loyal to Henry II, list of 111 compared with the Romance of Horn nationalism, historiography of 4 123, 154 see also English identity disapproval of ravaging in 98--102 Norman Conquest of England exile-and-return in 110--12 ambiguity in the justification of 172 nobility of townspeople and peasants in continental responses to 35 88--9, 105 effect on Normanitas of 56--7 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87891-3 - Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 Laura Ashe Index More information Index 243 revolution in landholding of 12--13, 48--9, repetition, the creation of culture by means of 59--60, 104 112--13 traumatic effect of 3, 5--6 see also Thomas, poet, Romance of Normanitas 6--7, 55--7, 92--3 Horn, The paradoxically threatened by the Conquest Richard de Lucy, justiciar 100, 101--2, 105, 56--7, 78 111, 112 see also Wace, poet, Roman de Rou Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, ‘Strongbow’, earl Northumberland, ravaging of 99--101 of Pembroke 90, 187--8 Norwich, capture of 110 Richard fitz Nigel, administrator and bishop of London 102 Odinel II d’Umfraville, baron 111 Richard I, king of England 57, 107 Odo, bishop of Bayeux and earl of Kent 36, 206 Richard of Ilchester, bishop of Winchester
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