Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages

• Henry Mayr-Harting at Liverpool ; Teaching with Henry Mayr-Harting ; Principal Publications of Henry Mayr-Harting to 2000 ; 1. Angels, Monks, and Demons in the Early Medieval West ; 2. Gregory the Great's Pagans ; 3. The Annotations in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. D. II. 14 ; 4. Why Did Eadfrith Write the Lindisfarne Gospels? ; 5. Virgin Queens: Abbesses and Power in Early Anglo-Saxon England ; 6. Duke Tassilo of Bavaria and the Origins of the Rupertus Cross ; 7. The Voice of Charlemagne ; 8. True Teachers and Pious Kings: Salzburg, Louis of Bavaria, and Christian Order ; 9. No Bishop, No King: The Ministerial Ideology of Kingship and Asser's Res Gestae Aelfredi ; 10. The Strange Affair of the Selsey Bishopric, 953-963 ; 11. The Church of Worcester and St Oswald ; 12. Unity, Order, and Ottonian Kingship in the Thought of Abbo of Fleury ; 13. An Ottonian Sacramentary in Oxford ; 14. Events that Led to Sainthood: Sanctity and Reformers in the Eleventh Century ; 15. Pastorale pedum ante pedes apostolici posuit: Disinvestiture and Reinvestiture in the Era of the Investiture Contest ; 16. The Religious Patronage of Robert and William of Mortain ; 17. Ranulf Flambard and Christina of Markyate ; 18. Functions of a Twelfth-Century Recluse Revisited: The Case of Godric of Finchale ; 19. Robert of Lewes, Bishop of Bath 1136-1166: A Cluniac Bishop in his Diocese ; 20. King Henry II and the Monks of Battle: The Battle Chronicle Unmasked ; 21. The Letter-Writing of Archbishop Becket ; 22. Thomas Becket: Martyr, Saint - and Friend? ; 23. Two Concepts of Temptations ; 24. Peter of Poitiers's Compendium in Genealogia Christi: The Early English Copies ; 25. The Saint and the Operation of the Law: Reflections upon the Miracles of St Thomas Cantilupe ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index

The strength of the volume is its repeated making new of old questions and matter, the scratching away of layers to reveal the vividness of an original text.