Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
Continuity and Carolingian Kingship: The Case of the Early Normans
An “Obsession with the Continent”: A Reconsideration of Insular Continuity
CHAPTER TWO: Conversion Politics and the Ideology of Imperialism
The Politics of Allurement: Conversion and Charlemagne’s Civilizing Impulse
Conversion Politics: Rituals of Submission and Unification
The Pygmalion Effect: Dudo of St. Quentin and the Rituals of Empire
Converting the British Barbarian: “Sitting at High Table” at the
Anglo-Norman Court
CHAPTER THREE: Making Their Mark: The Imperial Ideology of Topography
Imperial Unification and Sacral Kingship: Henry of Huntingdon’s Via regia
Charlemagne’s Imperial Memory and the Symbolic Landscape:
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Castles
CHAPTER FOUR: Taming the Wilderness: A New Look at the New Forest
Keeping It in the Familia? Norman Forest Law and its Carolingian Ancestry
In the Dreams of Snoring Monks: The King’s Body in the New Forest
Addicted to the Chase: Expressions of Royal Power in Marie de France’s Forests
CHAPTER FIVE: Epilogue
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX