Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Preface ix
6. List of Abbreviations x
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 The Dangers of Invention: The Sack of Canterbury, 1011, and the ‘Theft’ of Dunstan’s Relics 27
9. 2 Remembering Communities Past: Exeter Cathedral in the Eleventh Century 41
10. 3 Communities, Conflict and Episcopal Policy in the Diocese of Lichfield, 1050–1150 61
11. 4 The Acta archiepiscoporum Rotomagensium and Urban Ecclesiastical Rivalry in Eleventh-Century Rouen 77
12. 5 Cathedrals and the Cult of Saints in Eleventhand Twelfth-Century Wales 99
13. 6 A Bishop and His Conflicts: Philip of Bayeux (1142–63) 117
14. 7 Ecclesiastical Responses to War in King Stephen’s Reign: The Communities of Selby Abbey, Pontefract Priory and York Cathedral 131
15. 8 Secular Cathedrals and the Anglo-Norman Aristocracy 151
16. 9 The Lives of Thomas Becket and the Church of Canterbury 169
17. 10 Caught in the Cross-Fire: Patronage and Institutional Politics in Late Twelfth-Century Canterbury 187
18. 11 Crown, Cathedral and Conflict: King John and Canterbury 203
19. 12 The English Monasteries and their French Possessions 221
20. Index of People and Places 241