Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. JANET BURTON is Professor of Medieval History at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter and the author of many books and articles on monastic history.

• Preface - C P LewisKingship, Lordship, and Community in Eleventh-Century England [R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture] - Judith GreenCitadels of God: Monasteries, Violence, and the Struggle for Power in Northern England, 1135-1154 - Janet BurtonWriting Civil War in Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum - Catherine A M ClarkeLand, Family, and Depredation: The Case of St Benet of Holme's Manor of Little Melton - Sébastien DanieloBrothers at Court: Urse de Abetot and Robert Dispenser - Emma MasonGerald of Wales and the Prophet Merlin - Ad PutterThe First Hundred Years of the Abbey of Tiron: Institutionalizing the Reform of the Forest Hermits - Kathleen ThompsonAll Roads Lead to Chartres: The House of Blois, the Papacy, and the Anglo-Norman Succession of 1135 - Jean A TruaxThe Vita Ædwardi: The Politics of Poetry at Wilton Abbey - Elizabeth M. TylerWilliam of Malmesbury, King Henry I, and the Gesta Regum Anglorum - Björn WeilerTwelfth-Century Receptions of a Text: Anglo-Norman Historians and Hegesippus - Neil Wright