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This volume of the Haskins Society Journal furthers the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds but also on the continent. The topics of the essays it contains range from the curious place of Francia in the historiography of medieval Europe to strategies of royal land distribution in tenth-century Anglo-Saxon England to the representation of men and masculinity in the works of Anglo-Norman historians. Essays on the place of polemical literature in Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, exploration of the relationship between chivalry and crusading in Baudry of Bourgeuil's History, and Cosmas of Prague's manipulation of historical memory in the service of ecclesiastical privilege and priority each extend the volume's engagement with medieval historiography, employing rich continental examples to do so. Investigations of comital personnel in Anjou and Henry II's management of royal forests and his foresters shed new light on the evolving nature of secular governance in the twelfth centuries and challenge and refine important aspects of our view of medieval rule in this period. The volume ends with a wide-ranging reflection on the continuing importance of the art object itself in medieval history and visual studies. Contributors: H.F. Doherty, Kathryn Dutton, Kirsten Fenton, Paul Fouracre, Herbert Kessler, Ryan Lavelle, Thomas J.H. McCarthy, Lisa Wolverton, Simon Yarrow.
This article considers the history of the bishopric of Prague as described in the Chronicle of the Czechs. Written c. 1120 by Cosmas, the eighty-year-old dean of Prague's cathedral, the Chronica Boemorum is an ambitious work, first treating a Czech legendary age and then the period from 894 to 1125. It is a long, complicated text that serves a number of distinct authorial agendas. First and foremost, Cosmas uses his historical narrative to offer a stinging critique of contemporary Czech politics, as well as of political power per se. But embedded within this main narrative, virtually unmarked, is also a history of the see of Prague, Cosmas's own institutional home. This essay explores the nature and significance of the intersection in the chronicle of two separate historical events, those most significant to the see: its original foundation in the second half of the tenth century and the contested division of the diocese a hundred years later to accommodate an independent bishopric in Moravia, centered at Olomouc. Regarding the dispute over Moravia (1073–91), which coincided with the most intensely fought phase of the Investiture Contest (1075–1122), Cosmas took a patently partisan stand, one that demanded a selective presentation of the recent past as well as a subtle reinterpretation of the see's establishment in the more distant past. Moreover, as waged by Bishop Jaromír/Gebhard of Prague, the dispute itself hinged on demonstrating claims about the past, specifically the circumstances of the see's original foundation.