The Haskins Society Journal 27

<p>This volume of the <em>Haskins Society Journa</em>l brings together a rich and interdisciplinary collection of articles. Topics range from the politics and military organization of northern worlds of the Anglo-Normans and Angevins in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the economic activity of women in Catalonia and political unrest in thirteenth-century Tripoli. Martin Millett's chapter on the significance of rural life in Roman Britain for the early Middle Ages continues the <em>Journa</em>l's commitment to archaeological approaches to medieval history while contributions on Ælfric's complex use of sources in his homilies Byrhtferth of Ramsey's reinterpretation of the Alfredian past and the little known <em>History</em> of Alfred of Beverly engage with crucial questions of sources and historiographical production within Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England. Pieces on the political meaning of the Empress Helena and Constantine I for Angevin political ambitions and the role of relics such as the Holy Lance in strategies of political legitimation in Anglo-Saxon England and Ottonian Germany in the tenth century complete the volume.</p><p>Contributors: David Bachrach Mark Blincoe Katherine Cross Sarah Ifft Decker Joyce Hill Katherine Hodges-Kluck Jesse Izzo Martin Millett John Patrick Slevin Oliver Stoutner Laura Wangerin.</p><p> </p>