Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Note vii
4. 1 The Denis Bethel Prize Essay Bede and the Rewriting of Sanctity 1
5. 2 The Role of Rivers and Coastlines in Shaping Early English History 21
6. 3 Containing Virginity: Sex and Society in Early Medieval England 47
7. 4 Pagans and Infidels, Saracens and Sicilians: Identifying Muslims in the Eleventh-Century Chronicles of Norman Italy 67
8. 5 Robert Curthose and the Norman Episcopate 87
9. 6 The Revival of Roman Law: the Exceptiones Petri 113
10. 7 Mutatis Mutandis: Literary Borrowing from Jerome’s Letter to Eustochium and Others in the Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron by Geoffrey Grossus 125
11. 8 Acting Out Friendship: Signs and Gestures of Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Twelfth Century 147
12. 9 The Quantification of Assarted Land in Midand Late Twelfth-Century England 165
13. 10 Origins of Courtliness after 25 Years 187