Selected
publications: A Rural Society in Medieval France: The Gatine
of Poitou in the 11th and 12th Centuries; Life in a Medieval
Village; principle author of Le Conventum d'Aquitaine
(vers 1030); percurseur des premieres epopees; articles
in many different journals and collections.
Dr.
Beech is a cofounder and coeditor of the journal Medieval
Prosopography (1980) . Current Research Interests: 11th
century Aguitaine; its cultural and religious relations with
England, Spain, Italy, and the Crusader East; personal name
studies; origins of epic narrative and vernacular poetry; the
Muslim kingdom of Zaragoza in Spain; biography of the first
troubadour poet, William IX of Aquitaine.
