Mark Hagger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1711931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Hagger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Hagger |
| SIGNATURE | HAGGER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bangor University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Revisited
This article revives the suggestion, previously made by Otto Werckmeister and Shirley Ann Brown, that the Bayeux Tapestry was intended to act as part of a petition to free Bishop Odo of Bayeux from imprisonment at the hands of his half-brother, William the Conqueror, and that it was commissioned by the three knights named in it, Turold, Wadard and Vitalis, perhaps with the support of Abbot Scolland of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury. It argues t…
Richard, bishop of Syracuse and archbishop of Messina (d. 1195), and the History of the Tyrants of Sicily
This article reconsiders the agenda and authorship of the Liber de regno Sicilie or History of the Tyrants of Sicily by way of a detailed study of its content . The History comprises one of the very few detailed sources for the kingdom of Sicily under Kings William I (1154–66) and William II (1166–89), and while it only covers part of the period in question (1154–69), it is of fundamental importance for what it tells us about the politics, charac…
William the Conqueror, by David Bates
This is the first academically heavyweight biography of William the Conqueror published in English since 1964. It is built on a meticulous re-examination of the primary sources, and in particular the narratives that tell us about William’s career and the events of his reign. The story proceeds chronologically throughout, albeit with analytical and contextual asides where relevant to the better understanding of the events in hand. That chronology …
Norman Charters from English Sources
This book by Nicholas Vincent comprises an edition of an illustrative selection of material relating to Normandy to be found in English archives and, just as important, an explanation of how that material came to reside in England (and elsewhere, for that matter). In a lengthy introduction, comprising four essays in archival history, readers will thus find the ‘fascinating, but to date neglected story of the earliest antiquaries, both English and…
Confrontation and Unification
There has been a lot of work on the political history of Normandy in recent years, and this is changing understanding of the duchy's origins and development. Some of this work has examined the actions, relationships and settlement of the Vikings in the years prior to the ‘treaty of Saint‐Clair‐sur‐Epte’ and the inception of Normandy (traditionally dated to 911). The conditions that allowed the Vikings under Rollo to embed themselves in local soci…
How the west was won
This paper addresses a neglected aspect of the political and geographical development of the duchy of Normandy between c.987 and 1087: the expansion of the dukes' authority into the Cotentin peninsula. As narratives conceal more than they reveal about this process, ducal acta are the principal means of understanding it. In particular, the article examines the composition and use of the ducal demesne (and includes an appendix listing the lands tha…
The Norman Conquest
Journal Article The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction by George Garnett Get access The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction, by George Garnett (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. xviii + 147. £7. 99). M. Hagger M. Hagger Bangor University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 519, April 2011, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.109…
Secular Law and Custom in Ducal Normandy, c. 1000–1144
This paper sets out some new ideas and arguments on the nature of the secular law and custom of Normandy from the period when the written sources that can tell us about it begin to the Angevin conquest of the duchy in 1144. It begins with a discussion of terminology. Recent work on western France and England has avoided addressing the issue of what those living in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries meant by particular words, moving away fro…
King Stephen's Reign, 1135-54
This volume fits into what has become a series on the reigns of the Norman and Angevin kings published by the Boydell Press. There are ten papers here, originally delivered at a conference held in Liverpool in 2005. The collection as a whole is a strong one, and most of the papers in it will provide essential reading for undergraduates and researchers. The articles proper are preceded by an introduction by Marjorie Chibnall, which provides an int…
Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm
The earliest Norman writs revisited
This article revises the view set out by David Bates in 1985 that writs were seldom used in the duchy of Normandy in the period up to 1135. It reconsiders and re-evaluates how writs, writ-charters and charters should be characterized and provides some definitions for these documents. The article then goes on to consider the method of production of writs and writ-charters in or for Normandy, and what these acts can tell us about the public structu…
TheGesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani
This article reconsiders the domestic history of St. Albans abbey, known as the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, and concludes that the monks resorted to the fabrication of history in compiling a chronicle that rebutted the hostile claims of the monks of Ely and the bishop of Lincoln. The Gesta is used in conjunction with other documents produced at St. Albans, Domesday Book and the narratives produced at monasteries including Battle and L…
Kinship and identity in eleventh-century Normandy
Hugh de Grandmesnil was one of the co-founders of the Norman monastery of Saint-Evroult. It was no doubt his part in this foundation that led Orderic Vitalis, a monk of that house, to provide an account of Hugh's career in his Historia ecclesiastica. The information found there provides an almost unique opportunity to observe an individual of the eleventh century in the context of nearly all of his family connections. This article uses that evide…
Nine Nations Make a Law
On September 20, 1976 the member states of the European Community (EC) signed the concerning the election of the representatives of the Assembly by direct universal suffrage. The signing of the act represented the culmination of a process of negotiation in the EC that had begun two decades earlier when a clause was included in the Treaty of Rome that pointed to the eventual introduction of direct elections to the European Parliament. The fact tha…
Legislating for Direct Elections—the Passage Ofa Constitutional Bill
LEGISLATING FOR DIRECT ELECTIONS—THE PASSAGE OFA CONSTITUTIONAL BILL Mark Hagger Mark Hagger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 271–293, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051840 Published: 01 January 1980
Legislating for Direct Elections - The Passage of a Constitutional Bill
Legislative Roles and Clientele Orientations in the European Parliament
On the basis of legislative role theory, the study develops a set of role orientations of relevance to West European politics and the European Community. Roles are operationalised in the core and clientele sectors, using techniques that take account of recent research in social psychology. Using multiple-regression analysis, the hierarchy and relationships of national, party, and European Community factors are evaluated as predictors of role stru…
The Deconcentration of Legislative Power
With a constitutional framework that provides only weak formal powers over the Council and Commission of the European Community, the European Parliament has adopted a constructive focus on policy control through its committee system. In this study, the organisation and powers of the committees are examined in a developmental perspective, and the manner in which they influence the policy process is analysed through a specific study of the Regional…
Legislative Roles and Clientele Orientations in the European Parliament
On the basis of legislative role theory, the study develops a set of role orientations of relevance to West European politics and the European Community. Roles are operationalised in the core and clientele sectors, using techniques that take account of recent research in social psychology. Using multiple-regression analysis, the hierarchy and relationships of national, party, and European Community factors are evaluated as predictors of role stru…
The Deconcentration of Legislative Power
With a constitutional framework that provides only weak formal powers over the Council and Commission of the European Community, the European Parliament has adopted a constructive focus on policy control through its committee system. In this study, the organisation and powers of the committees are examined in a developmental perspective, and the manner in which they influence the policy process is analysed through a specific study of the Regional…
How the west was won
This paper addresses a neglected aspect of the political and geographical development of the duchy of Normandy between c.987 and 1087: the expansion of the dukes' authority into the Cotentin peninsula. As narratives conceal more than they reveal about this process, ducal acta are the principal means of understanding it. In particular, the article examines the composition and use of the ducal demesne (and includes an appendix listing the lands tha…
TheGesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani
This article reconsiders the domestic history of St. Albans abbey, known as the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, and concludes that the monks resorted to the fabrication of history in compiling a chronicle that rebutted the hostile claims of the monks of Ely and the bishop of Lincoln. The Gesta is used in conjunction with other documents produced at St. Albans, Domesday Book and the narratives produced at monasteries including Battle and L…
Legislative Roles and Clientele Orientations in the European Parliament
On the basis of legislative role theory, the study develops a set of role orientations of relevance to West European politics and the European Community. Roles are operationalised in the core and clientele sectors, using techniques that take account of recent research in social psychology. Using multiple-regression analysis, the hierarchy and relationships of national, party, and European Community factors are evaluated as predictors of role stru…
The Deconcentration of Legislative Power
With a constitutional framework that provides only weak formal powers over the Council and Commission of the European Community, the European Parliament has adopted a constructive focus on policy control through its committee system. In this study, the organisation and powers of the committees are examined in a developmental perspective, and the manner in which they influence the policy process is analysed through a specific study of the Regional…
Legislating for Direct Elections—the Passage Ofa Constitutional Bill
LEGISLATING FOR DIRECT ELECTIONS—THE PASSAGE OFA CONSTITUTIONAL BILL Mark Hagger Mark Hagger Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 271–293, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051840 Published: 01 January 1980
Legislating for Direct Elections - The Passage of a Constitutional Bill
Nine Nations Make a Law
On September 20, 1976 the member states of the European Community (EC) signed the concerning the election of the representatives of the Assembly by direct universal suffrage. The signing of the act represented the culmination of a process of negotiation in the EC that had begun two decades earlier when a clause was included in the Treaty of Rome that pointed to the eventual introduction of direct elections to the European Parliament. The fact tha…
Kinship and identity in eleventh-century Normandy
Hugh de Grandmesnil was one of the co-founders of the Norman monastery of Saint-Evroult. It was no doubt his part in this foundation that led Orderic Vitalis, a monk of that house, to provide an account of Hugh's career in his Historia ecclesiastica. The information found there provides an almost unique opportunity to observe an individual of the eleventh century in the context of nearly all of his family connections. This article uses that evide…
TheGesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani
This article reconsiders the domestic history of St. Albans abbey, known as the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, and concludes that the monks resorted to the fabrication of history in compiling a chronicle that rebutted the hostile claims of the monks of Ely and the bishop of Lincoln. The Gesta is used in conjunction with other documents produced at St. Albans, Domesday Book and the narratives produced at monasteries including Battle and L…
Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm
The earliest Norman writs revisited
This article revises the view set out by David Bates in 1985 that writs were seldom used in the duchy of Normandy in the period up to 1135. It reconsiders and re-evaluates how writs, writ-charters and charters should be characterized and provides some definitions for these documents. The article then goes on to consider the method of production of writs and writ-charters in or for Normandy, and what these acts can tell us about the public structu…
Secular Law and Custom in Ducal Normandy, c. 1000–1144
This paper sets out some new ideas and arguments on the nature of the secular law and custom of Normandy from the period when the written sources that can tell us about it begin to the Angevin conquest of the duchy in 1144. It begins with a discussion of terminology. Recent work on western France and England has avoided addressing the issue of what those living in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries meant by particular words, moving away fro…
King Stephen's Reign, 1135-54
This volume fits into what has become a series on the reigns of the Norman and Angevin kings published by the Boydell Press. There are ten papers here, originally delivered at a conference held in Liverpool in 2005. The collection as a whole is a strong one, and most of the papers in it will provide essential reading for undergraduates and researchers. The articles proper are preceded by an introduction by Marjorie Chibnall, which provides an int…
The Norman Conquest
Journal Article The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction by George Garnett Get access The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction, by George Garnett (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2009; pp. xviii + 147. £7. 99). M. Hagger M. Hagger Bangor University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI, Issue 519, April 2011, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.109…
How the west was won
This paper addresses a neglected aspect of the political and geographical development of the duchy of Normandy between c.987 and 1087: the expansion of the dukes' authority into the Cotentin peninsula. As narratives conceal more than they reveal about this process, ducal acta are the principal means of understanding it. In particular, the article examines the composition and use of the ducal demesne (and includes an appendix listing the lands tha…
Confrontation and Unification
There has been a lot of work on the political history of Normandy in recent years, and this is changing understanding of the duchy's origins and development. Some of this work has examined the actions, relationships and settlement of the Vikings in the years prior to the ‘treaty of Saint‐Clair‐sur‐Epte’ and the inception of Normandy (traditionally dated to 911). The conditions that allowed the Vikings under Rollo to embed themselves in local soci…
William the Conqueror, by David Bates
This is the first academically heavyweight biography of William the Conqueror published in English since 1964. It is built on a meticulous re-examination of the primary sources, and in particular the narratives that tell us about William’s career and the events of his reign. The story proceeds chronologically throughout, albeit with analytical and contextual asides where relevant to the better understanding of the events in hand. That chronology …
Norman Charters from English Sources
This book by Nicholas Vincent comprises an edition of an illustrative selection of material relating to Normandy to be found in English archives and, just as important, an explanation of how that material came to reside in England (and elsewhere, for that matter). In a lengthy introduction, comprising four essays in archival history, readers will thus find the ‘fascinating, but to date neglected story of the earliest antiquaries, both English and…
The Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry Revisited
This article revives the suggestion, previously made by Otto Werckmeister and Shirley Ann Brown, that the Bayeux Tapestry was intended to act as part of a petition to free Bishop Odo of Bayeux from imprisonment at the hands of his half-brother, William the Conqueror, and that it was commissioned by the three knights named in it, Turold, Wadard and Vitalis, perhaps with the support of Abbot Scolland of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury. It argues t…
Richard, bishop of Syracuse and archbishop of Messina (d. 1195), and the History of the Tyrants of Sicily
This article reconsiders the agenda and authorship of the Liber de regno Sicilie or History of the Tyrants of Sicily by way of a detailed study of its content . The History comprises one of the very few detailed sources for the kingdom of Sicily under Kings William I (1154–66) and William II (1166–89), and while it only covers part of the period in question (1154–69), it is of fundamental importance for what it tells us about the politics, charac…
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