Table of Contents

Joan of England and Al-ʿâdil's Harem: The Impossible Marriage between Christians and Muslims (Eleventh-Twelfth Centuries) (The Allen Brown Memorial Lecture)- Martin Aurell
The Forests and Elite Residences of the Earls of Chester in Cheshire, c. 1070-1237 (The Des Seal Memorial Lecture) - Rachel E. Swallow
The Coinage of Harold II in the Light of the Chew Valley Hoard (The Christine Mahoney Memorial Lecture) - Gareth Williams
Change and Continuity: Multiple Lordship in post-Conquest England (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize) - Hannah Boston
'Fitting the missing tile': Universal Chronicle-writing and the Construction of the Galfridian Past in the Continuatio Ursicampina (The Marjorie Chibnall Essay Prize Proxima Accessit) - Gabriele Passabì
'Audi Israel': Apostolic Authority in the Coronation of Mathilda of Flanders - Laura L. Gathagan
Between the Ribble and the Mersey: Lancashire before Lancashire and the Irish Sea Zone - Charles Insley
The Helmet and the Crown: The Bayeux Tapestry, Bishop Odo and William the Conqueror - Christopher Norton
Knighting in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Max Lieberman
Enquête, Exaction and Excommunication: Experiencing Power in Western France, c.1190-1245 - Richard Barton

About the Author

S.D. Church is Professor in Medieval Studies at the University of Lincoln. GARETH WILLIAMS has been a regional director of Sothebys and a curator for the National Trust at Nostell Park. He is now curator at Weston Park, one of the major country houses in Staffordshire, and head of learning at the education centre there. HANNAH BOSTON is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Humanities and Heritage, University of Lincoln, UK. LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts. CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester.