Journal of MEDIEVAL HISTORY Volume Contents and Author Index Volume 33, 2007 aOR ELSEVIER Journal of MEDIEVAL HISTORY Editor Professor Anne Curry 3 History Discipline, School of Humanities, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK : Editorial Assistant Dr. Leonie Hicks Editorial Board Sverre Bagge, University of Bergen, Norway Angeliki Laiou, Harvard University, USA Michel Balard, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France Michael Matheus, German Historical Institute in Rome, Malcolm Barber, University of Reading, UK Italy Wim P. Blockmans, University of Leiden, The Netherlands Sophia Menache, University of Haifa, Israel James A Brundage, University of Kansas, USA Constant J. Mews, Monash University, Australia Trevor Dean, Roehampton University, UK Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University, Canada Paul Freedman, Yale University, USA Martyn Rady, UCL School of Slavonic and Veronique Gazeau, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, East European Studies, UK France Miri Rubin, Queen Mary - University of London, UK Paul Hayward, University of Lancaster, UK Teofilo Ruiz, University of California, USA William C. Jordan, Princeton University, USA Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, UK Richard Vaughan, Founding Editor Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved Frequency: Published quarterly in March, June, September, December Publication information: Journal of Medieval History (ISSN 0304-4181). For 2007 Volume 33, is scheduled for publication. Subscription prices are available upon request from the Publisher or from the Regional Sales Office nearest you or from this journal’s website (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jmedhist). 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Clerical representations of Parisian beguines (1200-1328) Danielle Westerhof 87 Deconstructing identities on the scaffold: the execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, 1326 Number 2 Marcus Bull 107 Criticism of Henry II’s expedition to Ireland in William of Canterbury’s miracles of St Thomas Becket Julie Kerr 130 ‘Welcome the coming and speed the parting guest’: hospitality in twelfth-century England Merav Mack 147 The Italian quarters of Frankish Tyre: mapping a medieval city Kriston R. Rennie ‘Uproot and destroy, build and plant’: \egatine authority under Pope Gregory VII Jennifer Shea Adgar’s Gracial and Christian images of Jews in twelfth-century vernacular literature Katie Stevenson 197 Contesting Chivalry: James II and the control of chivalric culture in the 1450s Number 3 Craig Taylor 215 Preface Kathleen Daly The political will and the administrative won’t? Mathieu Thomassin and his dauphins (Charles II and Louis II) Mario Damen 233 Princely entries and gift exchange in the Burgundian Low Countries: a crucial link in late medieval political culture Emily J. Hutchison Partisan identity in the French civil war, 1405-1418: reconsidering the evidence on livery badges Michael Jones 275 Memory, invention and the Breton state: the first inventory of the ducal archives (1395) and the beginnings of Montfort historiography Marigold Anne Norbye Genealogies and dynastic awareness in the Hundred Years War. The evidence of A tous nobles qui aiment beaux faits et bonnes histoires Camille Serchuk 320 Ceste figure contient tout le royaulme de France. Cartography and national identity in France at the end of the Hundred Years War Number 4 Anne Lawrence-Mathers 339 William of Newburgh and the Northumbrian construction of English history Douglas Biggs 358 Archbishop Scrope’s Manifesto of 1405: ‘naive nonsense’ or reflections of political reality? Andy King 372 Fortresses and fashion statements: gentry castles in fourteenth-century Northumberland Jesus Angel Solorzano Telechea 398 Fama publica, infamy and defamation: judicial violence and social control of crimes against sexual morals in medieval Castile AUTHOR INDEX Biggs, D., 358 Jones, M., 275 Rennie, K.R., 166 Bull, M., 107 Kerr, J., 130 Serchuk, C., 320 Dale, S., | King, A., 372 Shea, J., 181 Daly, K., 217 Solorzano Telechea, J.A., 398 Lawrence-Mathers, A., 339 Damen, M., 233 Stevenson, K., 197 Downham, C., 33 Mack, M., 147 Miller, T.S., 60 Taylor, C., 215 Hames, H.J., 43 Hutchison, E.J., 250 Norbye, M.A., 297 Westerhof, D., 87 Printed in The Netherlands