The Medieval State: Essays Presented To James Campbell

THE MEDIEVAL STATE This page intentionally left blank THE MEDIEVAL STATE Essays Presented to JAMES CAMPBELL EDITED BY J.R. MADDICOTT AND D.M. PALLISER THE HAMBLEDON PRESS London and Rio Grande Published by the Hambledon Press, 2000 102 Gloucester Avenue, London NWi 8HX (UK) PO Box 162, Rio Grande, Ohio 45674 (USA) ISBN i 85285 195 3 © The Contributors, 2000 A description of this book is available from the British Library and from the Library of Congress Printed and bound in the UK on acid-free paper by Cambridge University Press Contents Illustrations vii Preface ix Abbreviations x Contributors xi James Campbell as Historian Patrick Wormald xiii James Campbell as Tutor David Hargreaves xxiii 'Off To Do Good': James Campbell as Colleague H.G. Pitt Bibliography of James Campbell xxxi xxxix 1 Peculiarly Patronus Noster: The Saint as Patron of the State in the Early Middle Ages Alan Thacker I 2 Two Frontier States: Northumbria and Wessex, c. 650-750 J.R. Maddicott 25 3 The Construction of the Early Scottish State Alexander Grant 47 4 Observations upon a Scene in the Bayeux Tapestry, the Battle of Hastings and the Military System of the Late Anglo-Saxon State M.K. Lawson 73 5 Eadmer, his Archbishops and the English State Mark Philpott 93 6 Henry I and Counsel John Hudson 109 vi The Medieval State 7 Towns and the English State, 1066-1500 D.M. Palliser 127 8 A Twelfth-Century View of the Spanish Past Richard Fletcher 147 9 Anti-Semitism and the Medieval English State Robert C. Stacey 163 10 From Rex Wallie to Princeps Wallie: Charters and State Formation in Thirteenth-Century Wales Charles Insley 179 11 The English State and the Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1360: A Fiscal Perspective Mark Ormrod 197 12 Politics, Sanctity and the Breton State: The Case of the Blessed Charles de Blois, Duke of Brittany (d. 1364) Michael Jones 215 13 The Empire of Tamerlane: An Unsuccessful Re-Run of the Mongol Empire? David Morgan 233 14 Brittany and the French Crown: The Legacy of the English Attack upon Fougeres (1449) Craig Taylor 243 Index 259 Illustrations James Campbell (Barbel Brodf) xii 1 Provinces and Royal Thanages in the Early Scottish State 59 2 The Hillock Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry 75 3 The Battle of Hastings: Freeman's Map 77 4 The Battle of Hastings: Baring's Map 77 5 Native Wales in the Thirteenth Century 183 This page intentionally left blank Prefacee This collection of original essays is offered to James Campbell by former pupils and others in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday and, more generally, of his forty and more years as a tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. We wanted to make it a volume with a theme and it seemed appropriate, in the light of James's own interests and of those of many of his former pupils, to choose 'the medieval state'. Sadly, that has meant our not being able to include work by other pupils, but we have tried to bring in as many as possible by interpreting the theme widel