Henry I
King of England and Duke of Normandy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9797944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Church (0000-0002-8829-0019, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), S D Church |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 499 |
| Pages | 1375-1377 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem342 |
| OpenAlex | W1989957208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In reviewing Warren Hollister's Henry I (2001; rev. ante, cxvii [2002], 1253–4), T.N. Bisson criticised Hollister on the grounds that, in his determination to see Henry as a progenitor of a new form of administrative kingship, he had missed the crucial fact that ‘Henry's power and problems were... those of a lord-king who dominated rather than governed’. In this new biography of Henry I, Judith Green expertly shows how right Bisson was to be wary of Hollister's emphasis on governmental structures in understanding Henry's rule. While accepting that Henry's period in control of both England and Normandy had ‘profound consequences’ for the kingdom and the duchy, Green argues that Henry I had a ruler's outlook that was thoroughly traditional and reactive rather than innovative and constructive. It was the exercise of old-fashioned power in the context of a rapidly changing society, according to Green, that led to an ‘intensification of administrative activity’ in England and in Normandy. ‘The rise of men who were, in effect, administrators was a social phenomenon’ common to Flanders and to the Île de France as well as to England and to Normandy. These bureaucrats, if we may use such an anachronistic term, were a necessary adjunct to a ruler's armoury in the struggle to ‘collect revenues and keep a watchful eye on [his] rights’, but the Henry of Green's biography did not manage these men closely, nor did he allow their actions to determine the nature of his rule: Green's Henry I claimed tradition for the basis of his rule, not innovation
Anachronism · Apothecaries' system · Archaeology · Autocracy · Biography · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Duchy · Economics · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Revenue · Ruler · Sociology · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |