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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Treason and traitors in Norman and Anglo-Norman history, c.1066--1135: Representation, discourse, practice Abstract: Prior to the English Statute of Treasons (1352), treason in England was neither a simple concept nor a clearly defined legal offense. Surviving Norman and Anglo-Norman historical texts from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries reveal societies seemingly obsessed with disloyalty, beset on all sides by rebels, perjurers, and faithless men. Because histories by authors such as William of Poitiers, Orderic Vitalis, and William of Malmesbury are our best sources for this period, modern historians have tended to accept these authors\\\' references to treason and traitors at face value, without critical examination of the discourses in which medieval writers refer to them. By reading these histories as transparent accounts of real events, modern historians have often exaggerated the degree to which Norman dukes and Anglo-Norman kings consolidated their authority over nobles, overlooked the mechanisms by which these rulers sometimes gained and sometimes lost noble support, and anachronistically misrepresented \\\"treason\\\" as an objectively defined crime against medieval kings or states. |
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