William North 
The Haskins Society Journal 21 
2009. Studies in Medieval History

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

Table of Content

Bede and the Rewriting of Sanctity – Sally Shockro

The Role of Rivers and Coastlines in Shaping Early English History – David A. E. Pelteret

Containing Virginity: Sex and Society in Early Medieval England – Thomas Cramer

Pagans and Infidels, Saracens and Sicilians: Identifying Muslims in the Eleventh-Century Chronicles of Norman Italy – Timothy Smit

Robert Curthose and the Norman Episcopate – Richard Allen

The Revival of Roman Law: the
Exceptiones Petri – Uta-Renate Blumenthal

Mutatis Mutandis: Literary Borrowing from Jerome’s Letter to Eustochium and Others in the
Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron by Geoffrey Grossus – Ruth Harwood Cline

Acting Out Friendship: Signs and Gestures of Aristocratic Male Friendship in the Twelfth Century – Rebecca L. Slitt

The Quantification of Assarted Land in Mid- and Late Twelfth-Century England – Mark Gardiner

Origins of Courtliness after 25 Years – C. Stephen Jaeger