Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, AND TABLES vi
4. EDITOR’S PREFACE vii
5. ABBREVIATIONS ix
6. Kingship, Lordship, and Community in Eleventh-Century England (R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture) 1
7. Citadels of God: Monasteries, Violence, and the Struggle for Power in Northern England, 1135–1154 17
8. Writing Civil War in Henry of Huntingdon’s Historia Anglorum 31
9. Land, Family, and Depredation: The Case of St Benet of Holme’s Manor of Little Melton 49
10. Brothers at Court: Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser 64
11. Gerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin 90
12. The First Hundred Years of the Abbey of Tiron: Institutionalizing the Reform 104 of the Forest Hermits 104
13. All Roads Lead to Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135 118
14. The Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey 135
15. William of Malmesbury, King Henry I, and the Gesta Regum Anglorum 157
16. Twelfth-Century Receptions of a Text: Anglo-Norman Historians 177 and Hegesippus 177
17. CONTENTS OF VOLUMES 1–30 197