Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. A Note on References xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Hearing Voices in Late Antiquity An Aural Approach to Augustine’s Confessions 7
8. 2 Confessor Saints and the Origins of Monasticism The Lives of Saints Antony and Martin 21
9. 3 The Barbarian Ethos The Germania, Beowulf, and the Life of Saint Boniface 33
10. 4 The Written World of Gregory of Tours 45
11. 5 Two Lives of Saint Radegund 57
12. 6 The Avenging Abbot Gregory the Great and His Life of Saint Benedict 71
13. 7 Crime and Punishment Anglo-Saxon Law Codes 85
14. 8 Conversion, Miracles, and the Creation of a People in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History 93
15. 9 Between Two Empires Einhard and His Charles the Great 105
16. 10 Divine Lessons in an Imperfect World Bernard of Angers and The Book of Sainte Foy’s Miracles 119
17. 11 William of Poitiers Talks about War 129
18. 12 Epic Values The Song of Roland 141
19. 13 Galbert of Bruges The Notary as Poet 153
20. 14 Odo of Deuil’s The Journey of Louis VII to the East Between The Song of Roland and Joinville’s Life of Saint Louis 165
21. 15 Encountering the Cid 177
22. 16 Wondrous Crusade Encounters Usamah ibn Munqidh’s Book of Learning by Example 189
23. 17 Between History and Literature Chrétien de Troyes’s Lancelot and Marie de France’s Lais 203
24. 18 Walter Daniel’s Life of Aelred of Rievaulx The Heroism of Intelligence and the Miracle of Love 217
25. 19 Richard of Devizes The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval 231
26. 20 Mission to Crusade Friar William of Rubruck’s Journey to the Mongols 245
27. 21 Saint Francis and Salimbene de Adam The Franciscan Experience of Family 259
28. 22 Cities and Kingship in the Medieval West Joinville’s Louis IX and Paris 273
29. 23 The Virgin and the King Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa María 285
30. 24 Moving the Masses Cola di Rienzo, the Anonimo Romano, and the Roman Crowd 299
31. 25 Christine de Pizan on Gossip, Misogyny, and Possibility 309
32. 26 Why Margery Kempe is Annoying and Why We Should Care 323
33. Contributors 333
34. Index 337