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Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt »

Authors: George Garnett (Editor), John Hudson
ISBN-13: 9780521430760, ISBN-10: 0521430763
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

An important set of historical essays on England and Normandy from the tenth to the thirteenth century.

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
1	Military intelligence under the Norman and Angevin kings	1
2	1066 and the introduction of chivalry into England	31
3	Against the Lord's anointed: aspects of warfare and baronial rebellion in England and Normandy, 1075-1265	56
4	'Ducal' succession in early Normandy	80
5	'Quadripartitus'	111
	Appendix: The prefaces of 'Quadripartitus'	148
6	The discourse of inheritance in twelfth century France: alternative models of the fief in Raoul de Cambrai	173
7	Anglo-Norman land law and the origins of property	198
8	The origin of prerogative wardship	223
9	Possessio/proprietas in ecclesiastical courts in mid-twelfth-century England	245
10	The sheriffs of Henry II and the significance of 1170	255
11	The charters of the Empress Matilda	276
12	A Norman conventio and bonds of lordship in the middle ages	299
13	The archbishopric of York and the extent of the forest in Nottinghamshire in the twelfth century	325
14	Archdeacons and parish churches in England in the twelfth century	341
	A bibliography of published writings of Sir James Holt	365
	Index of names and places	372