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An articulated group of skeletal elements comprising a sacrum, both ilia and a first caudal vertebra, plus an isolated tooth found in immediate proximity to the bones, from the lower Cenomanian Chalk at Saint-Jouin-Bruneval (Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France) is described and attributed to a new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod, Caletodraco cottardi, on the basis of several characters of the sacrum and pelvis. The peculiar shape of the transverse process of the first caudal vertebra shows that Caletodraco cottardi differs from majungasaurine abelisaurids previously described from Europe, such as Arcovenator escotae, and belongs to the Furileusauria, a group of derived abelisaurids hitherto recognized only from South America. The presence of a furileusaurian abelisaurid in the Cenomanian of Normandy suggests that the biogeographical history of the Abelisauridae in Europe was more complex than hitherto admitted. Several previously described European abelisaurids, such as the Albian Genusaurus sisteronis, may in fact belong to the Furileusauria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

İngiltere Kralı I. Henry 1120 yılında yaşanan trajik Beyaz Gemi kazasıyla tek meşru erkek çocuğunu ve tahtın yasal varisini kaybetmişti. Kazadan iki sene önce kraliçesini de kaybetmiş olan Henry’nin, kendisinden sonra tahta çıkarak Anglo-Norman devletinin kıta ve adadaki birliğini koruyacak yasal bir varise ihtiyacı vardı; fakat kalan tek meşru çocuğu kızı Matilda’ydı. Verasetin belirsizliği, Henry’nin gayrimeşru çocuklarından bazılarının ve yeğenlerinin taht adaylığını gündeme getiriyordu. Üstelik yirmi senedir esaret altında tuttuğu abisi Robert’ın meşru çocuğu William Clito etrafında şekillenen kıta ittifakı hem Normandiya topraklarını hem de İngiliz tahtını tehdit ediyordu. Henry sıra dışı bir hamle yaparak damadı V. Heinrich’in ölümünden sonra dul kalan kızı Matilda’yı yasal varisi ilan etmişti. Anglo-Norman soyluları Matilda’nın varis olmasını kabul etmişlerse de Henry’nin ölümünün ardından İngiltere tahtına Matilda değil, Henry’nin yeğeni Stephen oturmuştu. Stephen’ın kral olmasıyla birlikte Matilda ve ona bağlı soyluların ayaklanması İngiltere’yi iç savaşa sürükledi. Bu çalışma Matilda’nın İngiltere tahtına çıkamamasının ardında yatan nedenleri incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Anglosakson ve Norman veraset geleneğinde bulunmamasına rağmen bir kadın olarak Matilda’nın varis yapılması, Henry’nin ölümünün ardından Stephen’ın tahta çıkması ve iç savaş sırasında Matilda’nın tutumu çağdaş kaynaklar yardımıyla incelenmiş; Matilda’nın neden kraliçe olamadığı sorusuna cevap aranmıştır.

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The study of modern cave deposits forming under near isotopic equilibrium conditions can potentially help disentangle the processes influencing the oxygen isotope system and suitability of stalagmites as archives of past hydrological or thermal changes. We used cave monitoring to evaluate the impact of kinetic isotope fractionation and assess the conditions under which modern cave carbonates form in the Caumont cave and quarry system, located in Normandy, northwest France. Over 20 months, we collected climatological data, dripwater, and modern carbonate samples at 2–4-week intervals at three different stations inside the Caumont cave and quarry system. We find highly stable (10.4 ± 0.3°C – 11.3 ± 0.1°C) temperature in the deeper sections of the Caumont cave and quarry system. The temporal dynamics of δ18Odrip indicates that the drip water composition in Caumont reflects the original (though subdued) signal of precipitation, rather than the impact the seasonal to inter-annual cave air temperature has on isotopic fractionation. The monitoring reveals that δ13C of modern carbonate is influenced by prior carbonate precipitation that occurs during the summer season when evapotranspiration can minimize effective infiltration. Comparison of δ18O from dripwater and modern calcite, precipitated on glass plates and collected every two to four weeks, reveals that modern calcite forms near oxygen isotope equilibrium. A Hendy test on modern carbonate deposited on a stalagmite-shaped glass flask over 20 months confirms this finding because neither does δ13C increase with distance from the apex, nor are δ13C and δ18O positively correlated. We conclude that the δ13C signal in speleothems reflect summer (and longer-term) prior carbonate precipitation in response to effective infiltration dynamics, and that the δ18O signal likely reflects annual to multi-annual changes in the composition of precipitation above the cave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A small corpus of unusual contracts found in various 14th-century notarial registers from western Normandy raises questions about the ability of Norman communities to circumvent customary rules, whether in order to be married, to establish common property, or to anticipate succession. Together, this prompts us to consider both the legal capacity of married women and the role played by 14th-century crises in these arrangements.

This article explores William of Poitiers’ Gesta Guillelmi for its failed manuscript transmission. In spite of possessing various advantages, literary and social, the work found very few readers and was soon forgotten. It is proposed that the transmission relied on, or consisted of, an untidy autograph, lost in the eighteenth century. According to Orderic Vitalis, William did not complete the work due to “unfavourable circumstances”, probably related to the latter’s connection to the Conqueror. The essay contributes to two burgeoning scholarly discussions, on authorial publishing and on why some works failed to find readers.