Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Note vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. 1 Religious Houses and the Laity in Eleventh- to Thirteenth-Century England: An Overview 1
6. 2 Two Yorkshire Historians Compared: Roger of Howden and William of Newburgh 15
7. 3 The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-Saxon Law of the Highway 39
8. 4 Consilium et Auxilium and the Lament for Æschere: A Lordship 71 Formula in Beowulf 71
9. 5 Royal Succession and the Growth of Political Stability in Ninth-Century Wessex 83
10. 6 From Anglorum basileus to Norman Saint: The Transformation of Edward the Confessor 99
11. 7 St Þorlákr of Iceland: The Emergence of a Cult 121
12. 8 Reshaping the Past on the Early Norman Frontier: The Vita Vigoris 133
13. 9 The Appeal to Original Status in the Angevin Region (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) 151
14. 10 Dudo of St. Quentin as an Historian of Military Organization 165