Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-x

Abbreviations

pp xi-xiv

I - CONQUESTS, KINGS AND GOVERNMENT

pp 1-2

1 - Why 1016 Matters; or, The Politics of Memory and Identity in Cnut’s Kingdom

pp 3-22

2 - Why Did Cnut Conquer England?

pp 23-40

3 - Conquest and the Law

pp 41-64

4 - Cnut and William: A Comparison

pp 65-84

5 - Currency and Conquest in Eleventh-Century England

pp 85-98

6 - Episcopal Exon? Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS 3500 and the Role of Bishops in the Domesday Survey

pp 99-120

II - CONQUESTS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE

pp 121-122

7 - Conquest and Manuscript Culture

pp 123-139

8 - Kings, Saints and Conquests

pp 140-164

9 - Cultures of Conquest: Warfare and Enslavement in Britain Before and After 1066

pp 165-182

10 - Conquest and Material Culture

pp 183-205

11 - Remapping Literary History: The Patronage of English Queens across the Norman Conquest

pp 206-224

12 - Queens and Demons: Women in English Royal Genealogies, c. 1100–c. 1223

pp 225-241

13 - French Women in Early Norman England: The Case of Hawise of Bacqueville

pp 242-262

III - CONQUESTS PERSPECTIVES FROM BEYOND ENGLAND

pp 263-264

14 - English Contact with the European Mainland Throughout the Eleventh Century

pp 265-286

15 - The View from Wales: Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Time of England’s Conquests

pp 287-306

16 - England and the Papacy Between Two Conquests: The Shadow of ‘Reform’

pp 307-330

17 - Child Kings and the Norman Conquest: Representations of Association and Succession

pp 331-352

Bibliography

pp 353-404

Index

pp 405-427