6 Observations on the Twelfth-Century Historia of Alfred of Beverley

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Editors’ Note ix
5. Abbreviations x
6. 1 The Warren Hollister Memorial Essay: Rural Settlement in Roman Britain and Its Significance for the Early Medieval Period 1
7. 2 Holy Relics, Authority, and Legitimacy in Ottonian Germany and Anglo-Saxon England1 15
8. 3 Beyond the Obvious: Ælfric and the Authority of Bede 39
9. 4 Byrhtferth’s Historia regum and the Transformation of the Alfredian Past 55
10. 5 Geoffrey le Bel of Anjou and Political Inheritance in the Anglo-Norman Realm 79
11. 6 Observations on the Twelfth-Century Historia of Alfred of Beverley 101
12. 7 Bethell Prize Essay: Helena, Constantine, and the Angevin Desire for Jerusalem 129
13. 8 The Revolts of the Embriaco and the Fall of the County of Tripoli 149
14. 9 Jewish Women, Christian Women, and Credit in Thirteenth-Century Catalonia 161
15. 10 Military Entrepreneurs in the Armies of Edward I (1272–1307) of England 179