The Haskins Society Journal 32: 2020. Studies In Medieval History

This volume of the <i>Haskins Society Journal</i> demonstrates the Society''s continued engagement with historical and interdisciplinary research from the early to the central Middle Ages on a broad range of topics including militarism, piety, the miraculous and the monstrous. Chapters explore material culture through a mythic eleventh-century papal banner and the seals and coins of the Empress Matilda. Contributions offer new insights into Carolingian hagiography and into the undead in the <i>Historia rerum Anglicarum</i>. Further chapters feature new evidence on the role of priests'' wives, the tensions of multiple lordships, shifting identities in the Irish Sea world, and the didactic use of royal anger. A fresh examination of Aelred of Rievaulx''s <i>Relatio de Standaro</i> and a re-assessment of Flemish documentary practice continue the Haskins Society''s commitment to primary source analysis. Two essays on the thirteenth century, including links between Crusade spirituality and l