Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Editors’ Note ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. 1 Kings as Catechumens: Royal Conversion Narratives and Easter 1 in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica 1
7. 2 Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: A Viking Murder Mystery 19
8. 3 The Historiographical Construction of a Northern French First Crusade 35
9. 4 The Fate of the Priests’ Sons in Normandy with Special Reference to Serlo of Bayeux 57
10. 5 Contextualizing the Past at Durham Cathedral Priory, c. 1090–1130: 107 Uses of History in the Annals of Durham, Dean and Chapter Library, MS Hunter 100 107
11. 6 Imagining Justice in the Anglo-Saxon Past: Eadric Streona, Kingship, 125 and the Search for Community 125
12. 7 England’s Defending Kings in Twelfth-Century Historical Writing 147
13. 8 Taming the Wilderness: The Exploration of Anglo-Norman Kingship 165 in the Vie de Saint Gilles 165
14. 9 Instructing the Disciples of Nero: The Uncertain Prospects for Moral 187 Education in Gerald of Wales’ Speculum duorum 187
15. 10 Weathering Thirteenth-Century Warfare: The Case of Blanche of Navarre 205
16. 11 The Charters of the Thirteenth-Century Inheriting Countesses of Ponthieu 223
17. 12 Imagining the Conqueror: The Changing Image of William the Conqueror, 1830–1945 245