George Garnett and John Hudson, eds., Law and Government in Medieval England and Normandy: Essays in Honour of Sir James Holt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 387. $69.95 (ISBN 0-521-43076-3).

Abstract

1. Military intelligence under the Norman and Angevin kings John Prestwich 2. 1066 and the introduction of chivalry into England John Gillingham 3. Against the Lord's Anointed: aspects of warfare and baronial rebellion in England and Normandy, 1075-1265 Matthew Strickland 4. 'Ducal' succession in early Normandy George Garnett 5. Quadripartitus Patrick Wormald 6. The discourse of inheritance in twelfth-century France: alternative models of the fief in Raoul de Cambrai Stephen D. White 7. Anglo-Norman land law and the origins of property John Hudson 8. The origin of prerogative wardship S. F. C. Milsom 9. Possessio/proprietas in ecclesiastical courts in mid-twelfth-century England Mary Cheney 10. The sheriffs of Henry II and the significance of 1170 Julia Boorman 11. The charters of the Empress Matilda Marjorie Chibnall 12. A Norman conventio and bonds of lordship in the Middle Ages David Crouch 13. The archbishopric of York and the extent of the forest in Nottinghamshire in the twelfth century David Crook 14. Archdeacons and parish churches in England in the twelfth century Brian Kemp A bibliography of the published writings of Sir James Holt Barbara Dodwell Index.