Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Did Charlemagne have a Private Life? 15
7. 2 Bones for Historians: Putting the Body back into Biography 29
8. 3 ‘Carriers of the Truth’1: Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints 49
9. 4 Alfred and his Biographers: Images and Imagination 61
10. 5 Re-Reading King Æthelred the Unready 77
11. 6 Writing the Biography of Eleventh-Century Queens 99
12. 7 The Flemish Contribution to Biographical Writing in England in the Eleventh Century 111
13. 8 The Conqueror’s Earliest Historians and the Writing of his Biography 129
14. 9 Secular Propaganda and Aristocratic Values: The Autobiographies of Count Fulk le Réchin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine 143
15. 10 Reading the Signs: Bernard of Clairvaux and his Miracles 161
16. 11 Arnulf’s Mentor: Geoffrey of Lèves, Bishop of Chartres 173
17. 12 The Empress Matilda as a Subject for Biography 185
18. 13 The Gesta Stephani 195
19. 14 Writing the Biography of Roger of Howden, King’s Clerk and Chronicler 207
20. 15 Writing a Biography in the Thirteenth Century: The Construction and Composition of the ‘History of William Marshal’ 221
21. 16 The Strange Case of the Missing Biographies: The Lives of the Plantagenet Kings of England 1154–1272 237
22. INDEX 259