附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The English in the Twelfth Century -- pt. 1. Imperialism -- 1. The Beginnings of English Imperialism -- 2. The Context and Purposes of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain -- 3. Conquering the Barbarians: War and Chivalry in Britain and Ireland -- 4. Henry II, Richard I and the Lord Rhys -- 5. The Travels of Roger of Howden and his Views of the Irish, Scots and Welsh -- 6. The Foundations of a Disunited Kingdom -- pt. 2. National Identity -- 7. Gaimar, the Prose Brut and the Making of English History -- 8. Henry of Huntingdon and the Twelfth-Century Revival of the English Nation -- 9. The English Invasion of Ireland -- pt. 3. Values and Structures -- 10. Thegns and Knights in Eleventh-Century England: Who was then the Gentleman? -- 11. The Introduction of Knight Service into England -- 12. 1066 and the Introduction of Chivalry into England -- 13. Kingship, Chivalry and Love. Political and cultural values in the earliest history written in French: Geoffrey Gairnar's Estoia des Engleis -- 14. Some Observations on Social Mobility in England between the Norman Conquest and the Early Thirteenth Century.