Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Note vii
4. Abbreviations viii
5. 1 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance 1
6. 2 The Chronicle of Fulk le Réchin: a Reassessment 19
7. 3 The Canterbury Forgeries Revisited 36
8. 4 Germanism, Slapping and the Cultural Contexts of Æthelberht’s Code: A Reconsideration of Chapters 56–58 51
9. 5 Food, Drink and Lodging: Hospitality in Twelfth-Century England 72
10. 6 Performing the Other in the History of the Kings of Britain 93
11. 7 Piety and Political Accommodation in Norman England: The Case of the South-west 110
12. 8 The Sterling Abroad 132
13. 9 The Normans in Palermo: King Roger II’s Legislation 140
14. Roger’s Legislation, its Transmission and Sources 141
15. Roger’s Constitutions and the Emerging Jurisprudence of Roman Law 151
16. The Reception of Roger’s Constitutions in the Constitutions of Frederick II 162