Pre-Conquest History and its Medieval Reception

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Edited by Matthew Firth

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Offers insights into the political, social and cultural interests that informed the shaping of England's pre-Conquest history.

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Introduction: The Pre-Conquest Past in Post-Conquest England - Matthew Firth Part I - Writing the Past 1. The Authorship of Late-Eleventh-Century Annals of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Daniel Anlezark 2. Making All Things New: Eadmer of Canterbury and the Pre-Conquest Church - Eleanor Parker 3. Usable Pasts in Angevin England: Gervase of Canterbury and Richard of Devizes - Michael Staunton 4. 'A Little Handbook of Chronology': Contexts and Purpose of Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu - Stanislav Mereminskii 5. The Libellus de gestis regum Anglorum, a Cistercian Excerpt of William of Malmesbury's Gesta regum Anglorum from Late-Twelfth-Century Normandy - Elisabeth van Houts 6. What's in a Tomb? Language and Landscape in Robert Mannyng's Story of Inglande - Jacqueline M. Burek Part II - Writing Identity 7. 'Terre ipse loqueretur': Pre-Conquest Space in Post-Conquest Monastic Institutions - Cynthia Turner Camp 8. 'I will give myself to the work of reading history': Lessons from the past in the Relatio de Standardo of Aelred of Rievaulx - Connor C. Wilson 9. King Offa of Mercia: Damnatio Memoriae or Vir Mirabilis? Transmission and Adaptation in Post-Conquest England - Julian Calcagno 10. 'Cesare splendidior': Anglo-Norman Memories of Æthelflæd of Mercia - Matthew Firth 11. Eadric Silvaticus: Walter Map's Parable on the Colonisation of Wales - Kimberly Lifton Select Bibliography Index