Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xvi

Naming Conventions

pp xvii-xvii

Maps

pp xviii-xx

Introduction: Writing the Borders of the Norman World

pp 1-14

Part I - Borders in and Around the Norman World

pp 15-16

1 - Ireland and the Anglo-Normans Within the Irish Sea World: Rebels, Mercenaries, Allies, 1066–1169

pp 17-42

2 - The Northern Limits of Norman Power: Border Policies in Northumbria, c. 1050–1100

pp 43-68

3 - Controlling an Unstable Boundary: The Normans and their Continental Border Areas, 911–1135

pp 69-98

4 - Boundary-making in the Beneventano in the Early Twelfth Century

pp 99-122

Part II - Ecclesiastical Borders

pp 123-124

5 - Alexander II and the Normans: Borders as Instruments of Dialogue and Compromise

pp 125-148

6 - Gregory VII, Lanfranc, and Ireland: Papal Relations at the Periphery

pp 149-170

7 - ‘…a mari Barensi usque ad mare Bononiense’: Crossing Borders. The Travels of Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury, libertas ecclesiae, and the Uses of Clerical Mobility in an Age of Reform

pp 171-200

8 - Temporal and Spiritual Power in Norman Sicily: An Unreal Border?

pp 201-214

9 - The Crossing of Borders: The Legations of John of Crema, 1124–1125

pp 215-240

Part III - Conceptual Boundaries

pp 241-242

10 - The Very Idea of a Border in Britain

pp 243-272

11 - Norman Borders in the Work of William of Jumièges and Orderic Vitalis, c. 1057–1141

pp 273-300

12 - Is there a ‘Norman’ Historiography of the Conquest of Southern Italy?

pp 301-330

13 - The Lion, the Camel, and the Cassa of Terracina: Transfer and Exchange on the Borders of Norman Italy

pp 331-358

Afterword: Borders, Landscapes, and Seascapes

pp 359-366

Select Bibliography

pp 367-374

Index

pp 375-395