People, texts and artefacts : cultural transmission in the medieval Norman worlds / edited by David Bates, Edoardo D'Angelo and Elisabeth van Houts.

"This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- David Bates and Elisabeth van Houts -- 1. Harness pendants and the rise of armory John Baker -- 2. The transmission of medical culture in the Norman worlds c. 1050-c.1250 / Elma Brenner -- 3. Towards a critical edition of Petrus de Ebulo's De Balneis Puteolanis: new hypotheses / Teofilo De Angelis -- 4. A Latin school in the Norman principality of Antioch / Edoardo D'Angelo -- 5. Cults and hagiographies of the Norman age in southern Italy / Amalia Galdi -- 6. The landscape of Anglo-Norman England: chronology and cultural transmission / Robert Liddiard -- 7. The medieval archives of the abbey of S. Trinità, Cava / G. A. Loud -- 8. Writing the conquest: a comparison of the stories of William of Poitiers and Geoffroi Malaterra / Marie-Agnès Lucas-Avenel -- 9. Bede's legacy in William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon / Alheydis Plassmann -- 10. The transformation of Norman charters in the twelfth century / Daniel Power -- 11. Corpora and cultural transmission? Political uses of the body in Norman texts, 1050-1150 / Patricia Skinner -- 12. Homage in the Latin chronicles of eleventh- and twelfth-century Normandy / Alice Taylor -- 13. Weights and measures in the Norman-Swabian kingdom of Sicily / Mario Rosario Zecchino

This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading scholars in the field. Like the conferences, the volume seeks to enhance interdisciplinary and international dialogue between those who work on the Normans and their conquests in northern and southern Europe in an original way. It has as its central theme issues related to cultural transfer, treated as being of a pan-European kind across the societies that the Normans conquered and as occurring within the distinct societies of the northern and southern conquests. These issues are also shown to be an aspect of the interaction between the Normans and the peoples they subjugated, among whom many then settled.