The most recent research into the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds.Embracing disciplinary approaches ranging from the archaeological to the historical, the sociological to the literary, this collection offers new insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and thecontinent between the eighth and thirteenth centuries. Topics range from Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic andhagiographical texts, to Robert Curthose's interaction with the Norman episcopate and the revival of Roman legal studies, to the dynamics of aristocratic friendship in the Anglo-Norman realm, and much more. The volume also includes two methodologically rich studies of vital aspects of the historical landscape of medieval England: rivers and forests. William North teaches in the Department of History, Carleton College. Contributors: Richard Allen, Uta-Renate Blumenthal, Ruth Harwood Cline, Thomas Cramer, Mark Gardiner, C. Stephen Jaeger, David A.E. Pelteret, Sally Shockro, Rebecca Slitt, Timothy Smit

Bede and the Rewriting of Sanctity - Sally ShockroThe Role of Rivers and Coastlines in Shaping Early English History - David A. E. PelteretContaining Virginity: Sex and Society in Early Medieval England - Thomas CramerPagans and Infidels, Saracens and Sicilians: Identifying Muslims in the Eleventh-Century Chronicles of Norman Italy - Timothy SmitRobert Curthose and the Norman Episcopate - Richard AllenThe Revival of Roman Law: the Exceptiones Petri - Uta-Renate BlumenthalMutatis Mutandis: Literary Borrowing from Jerome's Letter to Eustochium and Others in the Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron by Geoffrey Grossus - Ruth Harwood ClineActing Out Friendship: Signs and Gestures of Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Twelfth Century - Rebecca L. SlittThe Quantification of Assarted Land in Mid- and Late Twelfth-Century England - Mark GardinerOrigins of Courtliness after 25 Years - C. Stephen Jaeger