5 Some Problems of the Peace: Angels in America (and Angevin England)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Editors’ Note viii
5. Abbreviations ix
6. 1 Reading the Greek Fathers in Latin in Pre-Conquest England 1
7. 2 Journey to the South: The Travels of William of Malmesbury in the Mid-1130s 15
8. 3 Kings in the Cloister: Contemporary Reception of Aelred of Rievaulx’s Royal Biographies 31
9. 4 Heretics, Miracles, and Cistercian Preachers: The Influence of Henry of Marcy on Herbert of Clairvaux’s Liber visionum et miraculorum Clarevallensium 51
10. 5 Some Problems of the Peace: Angels in America (and Angevin England) 69
11. 6 Purgatory Revisited 91
12. 7 The Exemplary Knighting of Geoffrey Plantagenet: A Historiographical and Documentary Reappraisal 109
13. 8 The Repentance of Geoffroy de Milly: Anger, Penance, and the Limits of Sovereign Authority in Thirteenth-Century France 127
14. 9 The Politics of Witnessing: Enquêtes as a Technique of Power in Thirteenth-Century France 153
15. 10 Taking It on Trust? Writing about Officials in the Medieval Italian Communes 201
16. 11 Following Her Star: Evelyn Faye Wilson, The Stella Maris of John of Garland, and Making a Career in Medieval Studies in America 235
17. 12 The Life, Scholarship and Legacy of Bennett David Hill, 1934–2005 249