Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. EMILY A. WINKLER is a Fellow of St Edmund Hall and member of the History Faculty at the University Oxford. LAURA CLEAVER is Professor of Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Robert F. Berkhofer III is associate professor of medieval history at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

• Editor's Preface - David BatesThe Planctus on the Death of William Longsword [943] as a Source for Tenth-Century Culture in Normandy and Aquitaine - Elisabeth M C van HoutsBiblical Vocabulary and National Discourse in Twelfth-Century England - Ilya AfanasyevBorder, Trade Route, or Market? The Channel and the Medieval European Economy from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century - Mathieu ArnouxGuerno the Forger and his Confession - Robert F. Berkhofer IIIFrom Codex to Roll: Illustrating History in the Anglo-Norman World in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Laura CleaverThe Adoption and Routinization of Scottish Royal Charter Production for Lay Beneficiaries, 1124- 1195 - Matthew HammondWomen and Power in the Roman de Rou of Wace - Susan M. JohnsLiteracy and Estate Administration in a Great Anglo-Norman Nunnery: Holy Trinity, Caen, in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Catherine Letouzey-RétyThe King and His Sons: Henry II's and Frederick Barbarossa's Succession Strategies Compared - Alheydis PlassmannIn vinea Sorech laborare: The Cultivation of Unity in Twelfth-Century Monastic Historiography - Sigbjorn Olsen SonnesynThe Redaction of Cartularies and Economic Upheaval in western England c.996-1096 - Andrew WarehamMonastic Space and the Use of Books in the Anglo-Norman Period - Teresa Webber1074 in the Twelfth Century - Emily A. Winkler

In 1978 the first Battle Conference was held at Battle, England, not far from Hastings. It was founded by R. Allen Brown, now remembered annually in the conference's memorial lecture. . . . [I[f the volume under review provides an accurate gauge, the quality of the conference remains high. R. Allen Brown would certainly be pleased with both the variety and the scholarship exhibited by the papers included.