Adelard of Bath and his eastern travels
Adelard of Bath, a scholar of Old English race, took his researches into a far wider field.…
Adelard’s plea for free inquiry into natural science
Adelard next opened a school, apparently in Normandy, to diffuse the scientific lore he had acquired in the East.…
The good peace of Henry’s reign
What gave scope for all this social, moral, and intellectual development was, in the Peterborough Chronicler’s phrase, the “good peace” that Henry, like his father, made in the la…
Foundations of administrative order after Tinchebray
The foundations of the political and administrative system by which this peace was maintained were laid in the three years after the battle of Tinchebray—the brightest period of H…
Peace in England, Wales, and Scotland under Henry
In England, from the day Henry drove out Robert of Bellême in 1103 to his own death in 1135, the peace was never broken save by occasional disturbances on the Welsh border.…
New complications in Normandy and the rise of Anjou
In Normandy the year 1110 opened a new phase of politics: a train of complications in which England seemed at first less directly concerned than in Henry’s earlier struggles with…
第二章
Chapter II surveys the beginnings of Anjou during the years 843–987, framing the original county, its chief city of Angers, and the broader Karolingian crisis provoked by Northmen raids.…
Geography of the Original County of Anjou
The original county of Anjou was a small territory in central Gaul focused on the lower Loire and its affluent the Mayenne.…
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