Tradition and Change

Essays in Honour of Marjorie Chibnall Presented by her Friends on the Occasion of her Seventieth Birthday

Christopher Holdsworth editor Diana Greenway editor Jane Sayers editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Jul '02

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Essays on the cultures of England and Normandy in the period after the Norman Conquest.

The essays in this book view institutions, groups and individuals responding and adjusting to changes in their world, whether in religious discipline or in the needs of government. They also explore the continuity of traditions in both ecclesiastical and secular society and trace how changes themselves crystallize into the traditions of the future.The essays in this book have as their theme Tradition and Change. They view institutions, groups and individuals responding and adjusting to changes in their world, whether in religious discipline or in the needs of government. They also explore the continuity of traditions in both ecclesiastical and secular society and trace how changes themselves crystallize into the traditions of the future. The topics chosen to illustrate this general theme reflect the wide interests of the honorand, whose publications, including her edition of the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, have illuminated the twin cultures of England and Normandy and their joint influence on European society in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

ISBN: 9780521524995

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 23mm

Weight: 468g

292 pages