Tradition and Change. Essays in Honour of Marjorie Chibnall.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.. 1st edition. Essays in honour of Marjorie Chibnall presented by her friends on the occasion of her seventieth birthday. Contents include: Ecclesiastical Themes: 1. The Archdeacon and the Norman Conquest (Christopher Brooke); 2.Orderic, Traditional Monk and the New Monasticism(Christopher Holdsworth); 3.Baume and Cluny in the Twelfth Century (Giles Constable); 4.Canterbury et la Cononisation des Saints au XIIe Siecle (Raymonde Foreville); 5.The False Institutio of St Osmund (Diana Greenway); 6.Two Mortuary Rolls from Canterbury: Devotional Links of Canterbury with Normandy and the Welsh March (Christopher Cheney); 7.The Reception of the Writings of Denis the Pseudo-Areopagite into England (David Luscombe). Secular Themes: 8.Some Observations on Norman and Anglo-Norman Charters (R.Allen Brown); 9.Waleran, Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester (1104-1166) (Edmund King); 10.A Decress of King Henry II on Defect of Justice (Mary Cheney); 11.English Charters from the Third Crusade (Jane Sayers); 12.Constitutional Development Through Pressure of Circumstances, 1170-1258 (Dione Clementi); 13.The Land Market and the Aristocracy in the Thirteenth Century (Sandra Raban); A Bibliography of the works of Marjorie Chibnall to the end of December 1983. (Joan Chibnall). Pp.xvi/269, black & white portrait photo frontispiece + 4 further plates, 3 tables + Map of Estates seized by Gilbert de Clare after the Battle of Evesham. Red cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear. VG/VG.