The Norman Conquest of England, the Papacy, and the Papal Banner

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-72
Author(s):  
Dan Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Norman Conquest

Conquests, Kings, and Transformations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Ashe
Keyword(s):  
Norman Conquest ◽  
English Identity ◽  
The Church

This chapter begins by considering the scattered writings produced in the decades following the Norman Conquest, and the role of their accounts of miracles and visions in re-creating a sense of English identity. It then returns to the reign of Cnut, to argue that his establishment of his rule as an ‘English’ king resolved the ideological impasse of Æthelred’s disastrous reign. Looking at the role of the Church in this crisis, it then considers the origins of the new theology of interiority and confession, and of the roots of affective piety. Turning back to kingship, it describes the patterns set in English government after the Norman Conquest, and turns toward the celebration of new secular and courtly ideals.

An Overview of Welsh Poetry Before the Norman Conquest by Carol Lloyd Wood

Arthuriana ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Patrick K. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Norman Conquest

The Cult of St Edmund, King and Martyr in Medieval Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Young
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
Medieval Ireland ◽  
The Middle Ages

St Edmund, king and martyr (an Anglo-Saxon king martyred by the Vikings in 869) was one of the most venerated English saints in Ireland from the 12th century. In Dublin, St Edmund had his own chapel in Christ Church Cathedral and a guild, while Athassel Priory in County Tipperary claimed to possess a miraculous image of the saint. In the late 14th century the coat of arms ascribed to St Edmund became the emblem of the king of England’s lordship of Ireland, and the name Edmund (or its Irish equivalent Éamon) was widespread in the country by the end of the Middle Ages. This article argues that the cult of St Edmund, the traditional patron saint of the English people, served to reassure the English of Ireland of their Englishness, and challenges the idea that St Edmund was introduced to Ireland as a heavenly patron of the Anglo-Norman conquest.

The Norman Conquest of the North: The Region and its Transformation, 1000-1135

1980 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Powicke ◽  
William E. Kapelle
Keyword(s):  
Norman Conquest ◽  
The North

Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Morton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Byzantine Church

This book is a historical study of these manuscripts, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule. Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over 500 years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region’s Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzantine church; out of thirty-six surviving manuscripts of Byzantine canon law produced between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the majority date to the centuries after the Norman conquest. Part I provides an overview of the source material and the history of Italo-Greek Christianity. Part II examines the development of Italo-Greek canon law manuscripts from the last century of Byzantine rule to the late twelfth century, arguing that the Normans’ opposition to papal authority created a laissez faire atmosphere in which Greek Christians could continue to follow Byzantine religious law unchallenged. Finally, Part III analyses the papacy’s successful efforts to assert its jurisdiction over southern Italy in the later Middle Ages. While this brought about the end of Byzantine canon law as an effective legal system in the region, the Italo-Greeks still drew on their legal heritage to explain and justify their distinctive religious rites to their Latin neighbours.

XIX.—On the Testament of Sir Hugh de Nevill, written at Acre, 1267

Archaeologia ◽  
1899 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 351-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Giuseppi
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Ecclesiastical Courts

Original wills and testaments of the first three centuries immediately following the Norman Conquest exist only in instances of extreme rarity. In the muniment rooms of the various ecclesiastical courts examples earlier than the commencement of the fourteenth century appear almost unknown, although there is said to be at Lincoln a collection dating from the year 1283. Stray examples may here and there be found in such collections of early charters and deeds as those preserved at the Record Office, and it would seem that it is to the calendars of these now in course of publication that we must chiefly look for the possible discovery of any further examples.

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