Contents

Introduction

1 Fatherhood in late Lombard Italy

Ross Balzaretti

2 Anger, emotion and a biography of William the Conqueror

David Bates

3 ‘Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(s)’ or ‘Old English Royal Annals’?

Nicholas Brooks

4 The tale of Queen Ælfthryth in William of Malmesbury’s Gesta Regum Anglorum

Kirsten A. Fenton

5 Women, children and the profits of war John Gillingham

Charters, ritual and late tenth-century English kingship

Charles Insley

7 Nest of Deheubarth: reading female power in the historiography of Wales

Susan M. Johns

8 Carolingian rulers and marriage in the age of Louis the Pious and his sons

Sylvie Joye

9 The cult of King Edward the Martyr during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready

Simon Keynes

10 Consors regni: a problem of gender? The consortium between Amalasuntha and Theodahad in 534

Cristina La Rocca

11 ‘Public’ aspects of lordly women’s domestic activities in France, c.1050–1200

Kimberly A. LoPrete

12 Property rights in Anglo-Saxon wills: a synoptic view

Julie Mumby

13 ‘Hunnish scenes’/Frankish scenes: a case of history that stands still?

Janet L. Nelson

14 Assembly government and assembly law Susan Reynolds

Professor Pauline Stafford’s publications in chronological order, excluding reviews