ELISABETH M C VAN HOUTS
Biographic Data
| ID | 5764762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ELISABETH M C VAN HOUTS |
| GIVEN NAMES | ELISABETH M C |
| FAMILY NAME | VAN HOUTS |
| SIGNATURE | VAN HOUTS E M C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Norman Conquest through European Eyes
Conquests in Eleventh-Century England
I can summarize my argument in a single image. Around 1110 a Canterbury scribe copied a charter onto the endleaves of an ancient Roman gospel book (Fig. 7.1). He recorded the name of the king, Henry I, and he interlined the styles and surnames of the witnesses in French fashion; but the anomalous feature is the script. Nearly sixty years after the Norman Conquest, in the reign of the third Norman king, a scribe at the heart of the Anglo-Norman es…
Anglo-Norman Studies XLI
Anglo-Norman Studies XL
Orderic Vitalis
Edward the Confessor
Medieval Marriage
Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250
Anglo-Norman Studies VI
Latin poetry and the Anglo-Norman court 1066–1135
In order to answer the question whether the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is the poem written shortly after 1066 by Bishop Guy of Amiens or anonymously in the early twelfth century, the Carmen is set in the context of the Latin poetry written between 1066 and 1135. A survey of the poems, which have survived in manuscripts or in the works of Orderic Vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon, concerning William the Conqueror and his family, shows that, althoug…
The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror
The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror Get access ELISABETH M. C. VAN HOUTS ELISABETH M. C. VAN HOUTS Girton CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCIX, April 1986, Pages 399–404, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCIX.399 Published: 01 April 1986
Scandinavian Influence in Norman Literature of the Eleventh Century
The purpose of this article * is to trace the possible use of Scandinavian sources and, on a more general level, to discuss Scandinavian influences on Norman literature of the eleventh century. Such a survey will enable us to prove or disprove the now commonly accepted notion that the rupture in political and economic relations between Normandy and Scandinavia after c.1025 self-evidently meant a break in the cultural contacts between those areas.…
Latin poetry and the Anglo-Norman court 1066–1135
In order to answer the question whether the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is the poem written shortly after 1066 by Bishop Guy of Amiens or anonymously in the early twelfth century, the Carmen is set in the context of the Latin poetry written between 1066 and 1135. A survey of the poems, which have survived in manuscripts or in the works of Orderic Vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon, concerning William the Conqueror and his family, shows that, althoug…
Scandinavian Influence in Norman Literature of the Eleventh Century
The purpose of this article * is to trace the possible use of Scandinavian sources and, on a more general level, to discuss Scandinavian influences on Norman literature of the eleventh century. Such a survey will enable us to prove or disprove the now commonly accepted notion that the rupture in political and economic relations between Normandy and Scandinavia after c.1025 self-evidently meant a break in the cultural contacts between those areas.…
The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror
The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror Get access ELISABETH M. C. VAN HOUTS ELISABETH M. C. VAN HOUTS Girton CollegeCambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCIX, April 1986, Pages 399–404, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCIX.399 Published: 01 April 1986
Latin poetry and the Anglo-Norman court 1066–1135
In order to answer the question whether the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio is the poem written shortly after 1066 by Bishop Guy of Amiens or anonymously in the early twelfth century, the Carmen is set in the context of the Latin poetry written between 1066 and 1135. A survey of the poems, which have survived in manuscripts or in the works of Orderic Vitalis and Henry of Huntingdon, concerning William the Conqueror and his family, shows that, althoug…
Anglo-Norman Studies VI
Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250
Medieval Marriage
Edward the Confessor
Orderic Vitalis
Anglo-Norman Studies XL
Anglo-Norman Studies XLI
Conquests in Eleventh-Century England
I can summarize my argument in a single image. Around 1110 a Canterbury scribe copied a charter onto the endleaves of an ancient Roman gospel book (Fig. 7.1). He recorded the name of the king, Henry I, and he interlined the styles and surnames of the witnesses in French fashion; but the anomalous feature is the script. Nearly sixty years after the Norman Conquest, in the reign of the third Norman king, a scribe at the heart of the Anglo-Norman es…
The Norman Conquest through European Eyes
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