Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vi
4. Editors’ Note vii
5. Abbreviations viii
6. 1 Under the ‘Romans’ or under the Franks? Venice between Two Empires 1
7. 2 Lost and Found: Eadmer’s De reliquiis sancti Audoeni as a Cross-Channel Solution to the Canterbury–York Dispute 15
8. 3 Of Lost Libraries and Monastic Memories: Creating the Eleventh-Century Novalesa Miscellany 39
9. 4 The Place of Henry I in English Legal History 63
10. 5 ‘Goliath Thought David Rather Boastful’: Royal Masculinity in Kingless Societies 83
11. 6 Well-Behaved Women? Agnès of Baudement and Agnès of Braine as Female Lords and Patrons of the Premonstratensian Order 101
12. 7 ‘Videmus nunc per speculum’: The Mysticism and Naturalism of the Twelfth-Century imago mundi 119
13. 8 The Norman Kings of Africa? 143
14. 9 Punishing Adultery: Private Violence, Public Honor, Literature, and the Law 167