Recent and Forthcoming Books

Contents include Janet L Nelson, "Did Charlemagne Have a Private Life?"; Robin Fleming, "Bones for Historians: Putting the Body back into Biography"; Barbara Yorke, '"Carriers of the Truth': Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints"; Richard Abels, "Alfred and His Biographers: Images and Imagination"; Simon D. Keynes, "Re-reading King ^Ethelred the Unready"; Pauline Stafford, "Writing the Biography of Eleventh-Century Queens"; Elisabeth Van Houts, "The Flemish Contribution to Biographical Writing in England in the Eleventh Century"; David R. Bates, "The Conqueror's Earliest Historians and the Writing of His Biography"; Jane P. Martindale, "Secular Propaganda and Aristocratic Values: The Autobiographies of Count FuIk le Rechin of Anjou and Count William of Poitou, Duke of Aquitaine"; C. J. Holdsworth, "Reading the Signs: Bernard of Clairvaux and His Miracles"; Lindy Grant, "Arnulfs Mentor: Geoffrey of Lèves, Bishop of Chartres"; Marjorie Chibnall, "The Empress Matilda as a Subject for Biography"; Edmund King, "The Gesta Stephani"; John B. Gillingham, "Writing the Biography of Roger of Howden, King's Clerk and Chronicler"; David Crouch, "Writing a Biography in the Thirteenth Century: the Construction and Composition of the 'History of Willliam Marshal'"; Nicholas Vincent, "The Strange Case of the Missing Biographies: The Lives of the Plantaganet Kings of England 1154-1272." Contents include Eileen A. Joy, "After Everything, The Postmodern Beowulf; Eileen A. Joy and Mary K. Ramsey, "Liquid Beowulf"; Edward Said, "The World, the Text, and the Critic"; Claire Sponsler, "In Transit: Theorizing Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Europe"; Nicholas Howe, "Beowulf and the Ancestral Homeland"; Allen J. Frantzen, "Writing the Unreadable Beowulf"; John D. Niles, "Locating Beowulf in Literary History"; Alfred K. Siewers, "Landscapes of Conversion: Guthlac's Mound and Grendel's Mere as Expressions of Anglo-Saxon Nation-Building"; John Moreland, "Ethnicity, Power and the English"; James W. Earl, "Beowulf and the Origins of Civilization"; John M. Hill, "The Ethnopsychology of In-Law Feud and the Remaking of Group Identity in Beowulf: The Cases of Hengest and Ingeld"; Janet Thormann, "Enjoyment of Violence and Desire for History in Beowulf"; Carol J. Clover, "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe"; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, "The Ruins of Identity"; Clare A. Lees, "Men and Beowulf"; Mary Dockray-Miller, "Beowulf s Tears of Fatherhood"; Sha