Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of tables ix
5. List of contributors xi
6. List of abbreviations xiii
7. Preface xv
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 Charters, law codes and formulae 7
10. 2 Compulsory purchase in the earlier Middle Ages 28
11. 3 Gallic or Greek? Archbishops in England from Theodore to Ecgberht 44
12. 4 Forgetting and remembering Dagobert II 70
13. 5 Some Carolingian questions from Charlemagne’s days 90
14. 6 ‘Immune from heresy’ 101
15. 7 English history and Irish readers in the Frankish World 126
16. 8 In search of the Carolingian ‘dear lord’ 152
17. 9 Making a difference in tenth-century politics 167
18. 10 The Carolingian capture of Aachen in 978 and its historiographical footprint 191
19. 11 Absoluimus uos uice beati petri apostolorum principis 209
20. 12 Fontenoy and after 242
21. 13 The death of Burgheard son of Ælfgar and its context 266
22. 14 The representation of queens and queenship in Anglo-Norman royal charters 285
23. 15 Franks and Bretons 304
24. Appendix 322
25. Professor Janet L. Nelson’s publications 324
26. Tabula gratulatoria 331
27. Index 336