Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents List of abbreviations Preface Part I: “Hagiography” and historical representation 1 Beyond positivism and genre: “hagiographical” texts as historical narrative 2 Still useless after all these years: the concept of “hagiography” in the twenty-first century Part II: Historiographic discourse and saintly relics: the archbishops and Rouen 3 The “Privilege of St. Romanus”: provincial independence and hagiographical legends at Rouen 4 The Acta Archiepiscoporum Rotomagensium: a monastery or cathedral product? 5 Eight men in: Rouennais traditions of archiepiscopal sanctity 6 St. Romanus of Rouen: Frankish missionary in Viking Normandy 7 The politics of historiography: the memory of bishops in eleventh-century Rouen 8 The cults of the holy bishops of Rouen from 396 to 996: the role of oral traditions and popular actions Part III: Historiographic discourse and saintly relics: beyond Rouen 9 The “exodus of holy bodies” reconsidered: the translation of the relics of St. Gildardus of Rouen to Soissons 10 The migration of Neustrian relics in the Viking Age: the myth of voluntary exodus, the reality of coercion, and theft 11 Apostolicity theses in Gaul: the Histories of Gregory and the “hagiography” of Bayeux Part IV: Dudo of St. Quentin and the Gesta Normannorum 12 Dudo’s historical narrative and the Norman succession of 996 13 Viking Normandy: Dudo of St. Quentin’s Gesta Normannorum 14 Dudo of St. Quentin (fl. late tenth century) 15 Carolingian Normandy: an essay on continuity, using neglected sources 16 Translating “feudal” vocabulary: Dudo of St. Quentin Part V: Women and gender 17 The Encomium Emmae Reginae: a “political pamphlet” of the eleventh century? 18 Sifting for fictions: women in Dudo of St. Quentin’s androcentric Gesta Normannorum Manuscripts cited Index