The Beaumont Twins

The Beaumont Twins

Author: David Crouch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780521090131

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This book combines a study of Waleran of Meulan and Robert of Leicester with an exploration of the exercise of power in twelfth-century Normandy and England.


The King’s Bishops

The King’s Bishops

Author: E. Crosby

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-04

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1137352124

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This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.