'Mother and Motherhood in the Vita et passio Willelmi Norwicensis' / Miri Rubin -- 'Prayer for the dead: women, death, and salvation' / Fiona J. Griffiths -- 'Authority over men and the distribution of property: two readings of William of Malmesbury' / Mathieu Arnoux -- 'Flemish settlement and maritime traffic in the south-west peninsula of Britain, c.1050-1250' / Julia Crick -- 'Cistercians and the laity in twelfth and thirteenth-century Upper Normandy' / Elma Brenner -- 'Memory and trauma: the strange case of Walchelin the Priest' / Patricia Skinner -- 'New charters of the Empress Matilda, with particular reference to her reception at Gloucester in 1139' / Nicholas Vincent -- 'Female identity before 1250: the Preudefemme' / David Crouch -- 'Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans: an outline of a new reading' / Pierre Bauduin -- 'Lives, identities, and the historians of the Normans' / David Bates -- 'Ruth in the twelfth century: medieval takes on the multiple identities of a foreign converted widow from Scripture' / Julie Barrau -- 'Jacob and Esau and the interplay of Jewish and Christian identities in the Middle Ages' / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- 'Identity, gender and history in Wace's Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut' / Leonie Hicks -- 'Glanvill: language, law, and identity' / John Hudson -- 'Dunstan, Edgar, and the history of not-so-recent events' / George Garnett