Galbert of Bruges and the Historiography of Medieval Flanders.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction - Jeff Rider and Alan V. Murray -- Part One. Galbert of Bruges at Work -- 1. "Wonder with Fresh Wonder": Galbert the Writer and the Genesis of the De multro - Jeff Rider -- Part Two. Galbert of Bruges and the Development of Institutions -- 2. Galbert of Bruges and "Law is Politics" - R. C. Van Caenegem -- 3. Not European Feudalism, but Flemish Feudalism: A New Reading Galbert of Bruges's Data on Feudalism in the Context of Early Twelfth-Century Flanders - Dirk Heirbaut -- 4. Galbert of Bruges and the Urban Experience of Siege - Steven Isaac -- Part Three. Galbert of Bruges and the Politics of Gender -- 5. Galbert's Hidden Women: Social Presence and Narrative Concealment - Nancy F. Partner -- 6. The Language of Misogyny in Galbert of Bruges's Account of the Murder of Charles the Good - Martina Häcker -- 7. The Tears of Fromold: The Murder of Charles the Good, Homoeroticism, and the Ruin of the Erembalds - Bert Demyttenaere -- Part Four. The Meanings of History -- 8. The Devil in Flanders: Galbert of Bruges and the Eschatology of Political Crisis - Alan V. Murray -- 9. Death from a Trivial Cause: Events and Their Meanings in Galbert of Bruges's Chronicle - Robert M. Stein -- 10. History as Fabliau and Fabliau as History: The Murder of Charles the Good and Du provost a l'aumuche - Lisa H. Cooper and Mary Agnes Edsall -- 11. Chronicles of Revolt: Galbert of Bruges's De multro and Jean Froissart's Chronique de Flandre - Godfried Croenen -- Selected Bibliography of Editions, Translations, and Studies -- Contributors -- Index.

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