Writers of the Reign of Henry II

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Cultivation of History, Legend, and Courtesy at the Court of Henry II

Chapter 3 Latin and French as Languages of the Past in Normandy During the Reign of Henry II: Robert of Torigni, Stephen of Rouen, and Wace

Chapter 4 An Intruder at the Feast? Anxiety and Debate in the Letters of Peter of Blois

Chapter 5 ”I will not Stay Silent”: Sovereignty and Textual Identity in Walter of Châtillon’s “Propter Sion Non Tacebo”

Chapter 6 Sex, Ghosts, and Dreams: Walter Map (1135?–1210?) and Gerald of Wales (1146–1223)

Chapter 7 Old English Textual Activity in the Reign of Henry II

Chapter 8 The Life of English in the Mid-Twelfth Century: Ralph D’Escures’s Homily on the Virgin Mary

Chapter 9 English Poetry of the Reign of Henry II

Chapter 10 “Gloser La Lettre”: Identity and Power in the Poetry of Marie De France

Chapter 11 The Meaning of Suffering: Symbolism and Antisymbolism in the Death of Tristan

Chapter 12 Arthur, Emperors, and Antichrists: The Formation of the Arthurian Biography

Chapter 13 Children of Anarchy: Anglo-Norman Romance in the Twelfth Century