VOLUME CONTENTS Number 1 C.M. Woolgar Food and the middle ages Carol Davidson Cragoe 20 The custom of the English Church: parish church maintenance in England before 1300 Eric Shuler The Saxons within Carolingian Christendom: post-conquest identity in the translationes of Vitus, Pusinna and Liborius Lynsey Robertson Philip of Harvengt’s Life of the Blessed Virgin Oda Adam J. Davis Preaching in thirteenth-century hospitals Justine Firnhaber-Baker Techniques of seigneurial war in the fourteenth century Number 2 Judith Collard Henry I's dream in John of Worcester's Chronicle (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157) and the illustration of twelfth-century English chronicles G. Geltner Mendicants as victims: scale, scope and the idiom of violence Cameron Sutt Uxores, ancillae and dominae: women in thirteenth-century Hungary in the Register of Varad Sarah M. Guérin Avorio d'ogni ragione: the supply of elephant ivory to northern Europe in the Gothic era Christopher Wright Florentine alum mining in the Hospitaller islands: the appalto of 1442 Number 3 Wendy Davies Judges and judging: truth and justice in northern Iberia on the eve of the millennium Thomas W. Barton Lords, settlers and shifting frontiers in medieval Catalonia Savvas Neocleous Byzantine-Muslim conspiracies against the crusades: history and myth Nicholas Morton The defence of the Holy Land and the memory of the Maccabees Number 4 C.M.A. West 5 Unauthorised miracles in mid-ninth-century Dijon and the Carolingian church reforms Boris Todoroy 312 The value of empire: tenth-century Bulgaria between Magyars, Pechenegs and Byzantium Catherine Rider 327 Lay religion and pastoral care in thirteenth century England: the evidence of a group of short confession manuals Melanie Brunner : Disorder, debts and excommunication: Pope John XXII and the reform of the order of Grandmont Catherine Lawless 359 The Virgin’s grandmother: the unusual legend of St Ismeria Jan Dumolyn 3 ‘Our land is only founded on trade and industry.’ Economic discourses in fifteenth-century Bruges AUTHOR INDEX Barton, T.W., 204 Geltner, G., 126 Shuler, E., 39 Brunner, M., 341 Guérin, S.M., 156 Sutt, C., 142 Collard, J., 105 Lawless, C., 359 Co‘mrpaocsnee, C-beD ., 29 0 Morton. N.. 27: Todorov, B., 312 Davies, W., 193 Davis, A.J., 72 Neocleous, S., Dumolyn, J., 37 West, C.M.A., 295 Rider, C., 327 Woolgar, C.M., | Firnhaber-Baker, J., 90 : Wright, C., 175 Printed by Henry Ling Ltd, Dorchester, UK